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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.

district files , permanent in nature, thereby becane a centn.l
repository or investigatin into1"111ation for the Air Poree wittdn
local geographical areas . Each district file having been croas
reterenced ·with the cent.ra.1 OSI file, actually has become a field
extension of' t.he cent,r&l. file P.nd therefore readily available to
every other District Office es an intormatioMl SO'tlPee.
9. As a protection to the perao.rmel ll'ho mq become inTOlved
in an invest1gat1on eonduetttd by OSI , all matt.en of an investi
gat.ive nature have been treated as confidential. All reports of
investigative findings have been o.f'fieiall,y classified a.t. least
"confidentia.111 with t.he info:nu�tion ccmtained therein� disclosed
only to auth.oriud personnel who require euch in:t'onMtion in t.he
performance of their official duties.
10. The eeveral. major air commands within tbs United Stat.ea
have bases all O'Ver the United States, and it is tor this r-eaeon
that the Air Force has 1ecided to pl.ace the Air Force iDYestigativ-e
actint.ies under the cant.t"8llv.ed cont?"Ol or a Director of Special
Inestigationa whose im'estigatora could perform a service tor all
Air Force aotidties. Prior to this, much duplication ot inveeti
gaUve activity occurred in the Air Force. The value of t.hill
centralization has been practically ex.et1anlitied ae followa i
i.e. Within the radius or a raw sdlea in the eoutbern
pa.rt ot Texas, there han been tour Air Foree irurtallat:lona
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