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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 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. 10 …of clergy," the criticism that is has never had a generally accepted set of guidelines controlling…
  • p. 46 …The SID has never been restricted in either substantive or geographic area coverage with the exception…
  • p. 56 …As far as can be determined, they have never been coordinated outside of CIA. Early SIMs…
  • p. 61 …OSI participation in OCI publications by the preparation of items within OSI has never been entirely…
  • p. 87 …on the development of a country have never been completely successful and OSI has continued to…
  • p. 104 …Publications in this area, however, never comprised a large
  • p. 137 …It was also clear to them that OSI could never hope to have internally the complete…
  • p. 182 …This policy change was never fully implemented; Office personnel responsible for arranging for contract support frequently…
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position be fully incorporated in these contributions. After submission of OSI-approved contributions to the various subcommittees, etc., these contributions are then merged into SIC or GMAIC contributions, approved by the Committee concerned and subsequently submitted to the BNE. An independent OSI contribution would go directly to the BNE after approval by the IB. After BNE approval, the estimates are submitted for USIB approval. Throughout the entire review and process, OSI through its membership on the subcommittees and committees as well as through its project officers and Estimates Officer monitors the estimate until final USIB approval.

## Planning

Planning of the estimates program is primarily the responsibility of the Board of National Estimates and the USIB. After estimates are approved and scheduled draft Terms of Reference are prepared by the BNE and these TRs are reviewed by both OSI and various interested committees and subcommittees with OSI membership. OSI participation in planning of estimates does not extend beyond this review, but OSI does determine which estimates the Office will contribute to.

Subject and Area Coverage

Determination of both substantive and geographic area coverage in national estimates has always been to

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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.