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USAF OSI History 1948-1950

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This is a history of the USAF Office of Special Investigations covering 19 July 1948 to 30 June 1950, prepared for the Inspector General on 22 November 1950 and released with redactions by AFOSI under FOIA in December 2010. It describes how OSI was set up under Brigadier General Joseph F. Carroll to bring the Air Force's criminal, counterintelligence and procurement fraud investigations under one command. It also covers the 25 district offices, the headquarters divisions and the investigative procedures. The text does not discuss UFOs.

  • p. 20 …To a chieve the dual objective ot cooperative consolidation 12 and central direction., the OSI stncture…
On. l Auaust. 19.lil! the OSI ae an activity- ot the Inspector General
USA.F COlll!llem,ed. Operation under the prorluiona of_ Air Force Letter
2Q....4. dated 19 J,ul,y 19"8.1 Thie directive out.J.im,4 c1t;.n. a.18s1on and
functions of the organisation and beCUl.e known a.a the origillal charter .,,.:: , ·
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UDier which the 0l"ganization vas fomed. . ,1, ·d'· :,
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2,. The innstigativa reapcmsibUit.iee of the Director
ot Special InvestigaUona were discharged tlu-ougb a field actin:t.7
canposed of twenty-five (2� district otticee etrat�gioally located
throughc,ut the United Stfl.tea. Each diBtJ"ict. offloe vu tu,.,rdabed a
definite allocation ot'terr-:ttory on a. geographic 'baa:i.a, - rea,poi:iei
bllity tor operational cOYerage eht.rged on this bane. 'l'emtorl.al
allo�tions were detendned t.hrough a careful ·rertew and amal,Jtsls of
the moat effective n:es.nlli or aocOl'llpllshing the OSI .:Lesion. The
geographieal chart, .Appendix "A, i: illUltrate& the t.erritor!.al juri
diction of the twenty-five(25) district ottices w.ltldn t'hE! United
States,.
1. A.FL 20-4 Ja.ted 19 ..rlll.y 1948 attached as Appendix 1t8'' to this hl•tor.,.
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