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 multiple responsibilities of the OSI analyst have also influenced OSI participation in OCI publications. Whereas the OCI analyst has only current intelligence reporting responsibilities, the OSI analyst had not only current intelligence reporting responsibilities, but also responsibilities for depth and estimative reporting. In some cases, he also had much of his time devoted to operational support. While this had placed a heavy burden on the analyst, it has however given him a depth and breadth of knowledge rarely found elsewhere and made him the expert in his field. This has in most cases led to OCI's ready acceptance of OSI's point of view in substantive matters. In spite of the problems inherent in the production of current intelligence in OCI publications, and the decrease in OSI substantive areas of responsibility, OSI has made sporadic efforts to improve production in OCI publications. A report to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on OSI activities in FY 1959 stated that one of the important responsibilities of the Office was to furnish support to the Office of Current Intelligence by initiation of items of a scientific or technical nature for publication by
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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.