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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## TOP SEGRET ## III. Estimative Intelligence Reporting ## A. National Estimates National estimates, those community-coordinated reports which attempt to assess a foreign nation's intentions, future policies, or capabilities, are the most important finished intelligence product of the intelligence community. From its earliest days, OSI has been heavily involved in the production of these estimates. Inasmuch as estimates are the result of community participation, OSI's participation has generally been through normal community mechanisms, i.e., the SIC, JAEIC, and GMAIC of USIB. In the early days of OSI's existence, however, OSI produced estimates in two quite separate ways. One path was for estimates that related to the field of atomic energy. These were processed through JAEIC (then a subcommittee of the SIC) to the IAC (now USIB) without ONE participation. For all other types of estimates, the path was from OSI through the SIC and later GMAIC mechanisms to ONE and subsequently to USIB. ## 1. Nuclear Estimates Among the most important early OSI production were the early estimates of Soviet nuclear capabilities. These estimates were produced independently of the normal NIE mechanism and to a great extent independently of the 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.