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