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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scientific research and development and are based on as thorough a search for and assessment of available information as time permits. Scientific Intelligence Memoranda (SIM) -- See IM above. This category became obsolete in 1964 after the establishment in 1963 of the Scientific Intelligence Brief (SIB) to provide timely reporting. Scientific Research Aid (SRA) -- a publication which presents systematically arranged data for ready reference of analysts. This category was replaced in 1953 by the Scientific Intelligence Research Aid (SIRA) which became obsolete in 1967. Scientific Intelligence Collection Guide (SICG) -- a compilation of research needs systematically arranged. With the exception of the MPs, the SICGs, and certain sensitive reports, the above categories of publications are presented in the attached chart which shows the number of each type of publications that has
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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.