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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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# TOP SECRET IV. Scientific and Technical Intelligence Reports In order to meet these responsibilities, OSI has since its establishment conducted in-depth research leading to the publication of comprehensive reports. This has been the backbone of OSI production. In the early years, four general types of in-depth reporting were emphasized: reports on the results of exhaustive scientific intelligence research; working papers which were generally preliminary versions of a report or portion thereof; memoranda which were more timely, short reports; and summaries which were periodic publications. This report and the many others that followed shortly thereafter were in many cases prepared TOP SECRET
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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.