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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”11 pages
and because of the central.12ed inethod ot ot'll!lration it has been would not have been nossible under a deeentraliz.ed 1.nvustig�tive &7st,em.. The investigation or a b,i;i clcground of an indi:ri.dual who vae born in haseachu�tts, ·went to scboel in Calitomia, and has resided for the lfl8 jo:r portion ot his adult lite in Otlio baa been handled in OSI simply and e.xp.editiou•l:r because at the ab,senoe or t.he ne ceas1t7 ot sending lead requests to other inVfJ&tigat.ive m.-ga.nisationa through ca:nmand channel s. OSI field a.ret1ciH having direct comm.wication with all other Of.I activitiee, haw be1111n able , therefore. to shunt comn,and lines which would ot.herNiee have bottle-necked inv•stigative oμ;rations. 'JI .AFR 124-2 dated 3 AUB"ust 19;0 110peration ot OS! Lif.t'icsa at Air Force Installa't:ione. n (Re-written from fol'"tller Ai r Force Letter 124-2 dated 19 July 1948) 22
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