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.
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with the realization that the data base then avail- able was not sufficient to provide adequate support to the national estimates program. Thus, many of these early reports were prepared as springboards from which more important and far reaching intelli- gence judgments could be made. Nonetheless, many of these reports, especially the memoranda, were prepared for a high level readership. ## Programming OSI programming and planning of production has been done both formally and informally. In 1953, the OSI Intelligence Board was established by OSI The Board, composed of the OSI division and staff chiefs, was established as an advisory body to the Assistant Director/OSI to provide him with the necessary integrated approach to the production of scientific intelligence. It was to review and advise him on major policies, programs, projects,
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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.