Documents / FOIA release
This is Volume Three of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series on the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), 1949 to 1968, written by Karl H. Weber in June 1972 and approved for release in 2008. It holds three annexes, on OSI publications, OSI's external assistance and contracting program, and OSI's interaction with the National Security Agency. The released text covers production planning, review boards, current intelligence periodicals and future threat forecasting. It does not discuss UFOs.
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The lack of OSI participation in OCI publications, and later the national current intelligence publication (Central Intelligence Bulletin), is due to many factors. One of the primary causes probably has been and continues to be the lack of full appreciation on the part of many OSI analysts that the primary responsibility of the Office is the production of intelligence and that the production of national intelligence carries more weight than departmental (Agency) or Office intelligence. Furthermore, the stringent chain of command and internal OSI approval of all items prepared for or coordinated for the OCI publications may make the analyst feel that he need not be responsible for that which he writes or coordinates and makes him either more passive or more irresponsible. Further, the analyst may not have been led to feel by his superiors that he would receive any recognition for his contributions to another Office. Other factors also have been evident in OSI participation in OCI production. Some of these have been purely physical. Until 1961 when the Agency moved into the Headquarters Building, OSI and OCI were so separated physically that normal day-to-day analyst-to-analyst discussions were very difficult. Additionally the physical separation of OSI made it almost impossible
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 243 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.