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.
“The Advance”10 pages
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Under these various headings, OSI began the production of needed scientific intelligence. In its quest to provide the broad interdisciplinary studies ranging from basic research to weaponry development, OSI began increasingly to impinge on what the services considered their areas of responsibility. This led in turn to the issuance of DCID 3/4 which in essence limited OSI production to studies in the basic and applied research areas and assigned the task of reporting on military hardware to the military agencies. Subsequently, OSI was authorized to produce scientific and technical intelligence as a service of common concern and as required to fulfill the statutory responsibilities of the DCI under DCID 3/5 (new series), issued in February 1959. Types of OSI Reporting and Division of Effort Since its establishment, OSI has produced intelligence in three general categories; publications prepared to support intelligence issuances of other offices, responses to specific ad hoc requests, and reports on self-initiated research. Reporting in the first category TOP SECRET
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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.