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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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## Area and Subject Coverage OSI depth production by substantive area and by geographic area is shown in the two attached charts. As is very evident from the chart on geographic area coverage, the Office has concentrated its efforts on the Soviet Union. Indeed, 77 percent of the total OSI depth production from 1949 through 1968 has been on the USSR. Of the remaining, 9 percent has been on the Soviet Satellites, 8 percent on the Free World, and 6 percent on China. As can be seen on the chart, the proportion of reporting on the USSR compared to that on all other areas increased to
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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.