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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. 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…
countries has increased. In 1951, 11 of the 16 estimates in which OSI participated were concerned with Soviet actions. In the period of the early 1950s Western European countries received estimate coverage second only to the USSR and virtually no estimates of OSI interest on Communist China were published.

Statistical Summary of OSI Participation in National Estimates Program

Year(FY)	Bloc	Non-Bloc
1958	14	4
1959	10	5
1960	16	1
1961	17	7
1962	22	4

For comparison, in FY 1968, OSI participated in 8 Bloc estimates and 12 non-Bloc estimates. OSI participation

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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 an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 243 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.