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.
“Office of Special Investigations”1 page
TOP SECRET SIC even though from 1949-52 JAEIC was a subcommittee of the SIC. In 1953, they were for the first time designated National Scientific Intelligence Estimates (NSIE). By 1954, they had been designated National Intelligence Estimates although they were prepared through a mechanism that did not involve ONE. By that time they had begun to take on a more estimative stance in that they began to project future Soviet capabilities. Throughout this early period, JAEIC operated with "well nigh absolute authority" in respect to atomic
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 243 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.