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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.
“The Advance”10 pages
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FY 64 65 66 67 .25 .54 .73 .37 .17 .32 .54 .27 In the very early days much OSI production was responsive to direct requests for intelligence from consumers. At that time, many requests came from the Research and Development Board for coverage of specific topics. As early as 1951 special studies and reports also were being prepared for subsidiary groups of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare (CEBAR) Committee of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Armed Forces Medical Policy Council, and the National Security Resources Board. Though to some extent, depth reporting in response to specific requests continues, the majority of such requests are related now to matters of current scientific intelligence. ## Categories of Reports Since 1949 OSI has published a variety of categories of depth reports. They are defined below: Intelligence Memorandum (IM) -- a brief, timely, and interpretative statement of scientific intelligence. This term was superseded by Scientific Intelligence Memorandum (SIM) in 1951.
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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.