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
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
Report (STIR) and the NIS; the estimative as exemplified by contributions to the NIE; and the current exemplified by the Scientific Intelligence Digest (SID). In the early 1950s, the division of OSI effort into three categories was determined primarily by outside requests and commitments such as the National Intelligence Estimate and by the need to compile available information to determine the actual data base available in scientific intelligence. From these two factors the most pressing gaps in scientific intelligence were to be determined. For this purpose, OSI set up "Consumer Programs" to fulfill the former and the "Basic Programs" for the latter. All of these programs and efforts, however, had one overriding goal; namely, support to national intelligence estimates. Thus, in terms of quantity of production, the depth research report devoted to building up a basic understanding of the scientific and technological capabilities of the Soviet sphere and exemplified by the numerous studies prepared on the Soviet Academy of Sciences and other Soviet scientific organizations, received the greatest attention. While contributions to NIEs generally were significantly smaller in terms of actual production output, with the exception of the estimates on Soviet nuclear capabilities, contributions
Not linked to a story yet.
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.