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(EST Pub Date) the Office of Scientific Intelligence, 1949-68- (Volume Three, Annexes Viii, Ix, and X)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1972-06-01 · 243 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 64 …Until 1961 when the Agency moved into the Headquarters Building, OSI and OCI were so separated…
  • p. 142 …Government maintains large organizations, especially those with headquarters in Washington, it has been possible to obtain…
  • p. 180 for approval by him and to higher headquarters The principles developed during the 1955/56 period…

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The primary OSI support for the production of nuclear energy estimates has been from the very beginning the of OSI which has served as the primary producing unit both by writing the major part of the estimate and by integrating community contributions. Although the Director of OSI has frequently served as the Chairman of the JAEIC, the was fairly independent of OSI controls and review procedures in the production of the early nuclear estimates. Nuclear energy estimates in recent years have been reviewed by the OSI Intelligence Board but no unilateral OSI contributions in this field have been made directly to ONE.

## 2. Estimates Other than Nuclear Energy

Since the establishment of OSI, it has been Office policy to render strong support to the production of

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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.