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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.
operati ng 'Wlder three different ma,jor .U.r Force COfiilll8Dda. Kelly Air Force Base has operated under the Air Hat,eriel COf!ll'!land, whereas Lac' land Air Force Base which ia imm.ediat.aly conUguous to Kelly Air Foree Ba•, bu been an installation ot the Air Training ComtMnd.. Bmoks Air t·orce 3ase, whi�b is only s short dist.an�• a.way-, baa come under the jurisdiction or the Continental. Air Command, vhereas Randolph Air Force Base, which is also located. in the same .u,enera.1 vicinity bas operated under the Air Training Command. Under the decentralized 3ys.tan ot investigation it would ha•re been ne eeasar7 for all t.hree of these ma,ior Air Force Colmnands to have t h.eir own investi gative organisations eotablished in thia area. Under the centralized s,ystew of ope ration, all Air Force inftstiga.t ive a ct,ivity in this area has been p erformed by tbe GSI, and GSl repnti:;-:enttltives stationed in thi, area have been �vailRble to all of the Ji:r Force lnstallatione 1nvol.ved,. ll. More prom- ,t and efficient service has been provi(ied to Air Force Comrnanders than c01tl.d be aooom.pl:i shed m,der a decentralised 57stem . During tle tirat year or operation, the present organization has been de.."'eonstrated to be , tor tt:ie l,ir For ce , more etficimt and / more eff\-� ctive than its px-edecea:sor,:1. The volume pa.rt ot OSl ' • investigatiYe a ctivities has been in t he per&0nnel background. ri•ld,
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