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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.

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  • 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…
would enhance the value of estimates. As late as 1968, it was reported that the DCI was to appoint a scientist to the Board, but as of early 1969, no such appointment had been made. Thus, efforts to bring ONE to a greater realization of the influence of science on the development of a country have never been completely successful and OSI has continued to place its primary emphasis on the production of those estimates related to military developments National Intelligence Projections for Planning

The National Intelligence Projections for Planning (NIPP), formerly the Assumptions for Planning (IAP) are a series of documents on Soviet military programs and capabilities prepared to meet the needs of the Department of Defense in programming, conducting exercises, war-gaming, and some research and development planning. They are prepared as supplements to various estimates in that they provide more details than the estimate, attempt to quantify words found in these estimates, and to provide figures for force levels, manpower, expenditures, and specific capabilities for various military systems. OSI concern with the NIPP is primarily with the capabilities and characteristics of the various weapons systems. OSI participation in the NIPP is handled in the same manner and through the same committee mechanisms as in the NIE.

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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.