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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
/ / 1. Cent.rali�ed diNction of the 111.etivitiea of the Ortice ot Spe cial Investigations hAas 1,-.een the pri1rary res-;;,onsib111ty or the Directorate ot Sp&cial Investigations, IG ,. USAF. The diverse fields c:f investigative errort ;1nd the recmil"eit.ents i,&euliar to the area.e in which the OST mission mu!'!t be accoir,plished, have r�qui'red compa mantaliz�tion in the Headquarters, USAF. The fluid nature ot iDVest.::tgative activities has required a flexible organizational structure in order t,o meet the demands as they arise . 2 . As prenOBl.y Btated, the organha.tional. :rram..-ork of tbe OSI originally consisted ot the Directorate of Special InTestigationa and twenty-five distr:i ct offices . or the t:,,,ent,y-five dist.rict of.fices, four ( 4) wel"e organized ns sub--di striete under the ccntrol and direction of a fifth district office located at Wright-Pattereoa AFB, Dayton, OM o. This sub-district type of orpnization 'tnl8 applied tor the primary purpose of conducting procuN!m811t fraud inwstigations . It was intended t,hAt thf.li3e five district s should conduct. all investi gati ons con cerning eri:r1inal trNgularities occurlng in connection with the Air Foree Procurement Program . The invest::1. gative a.ct.ivitiea of the district tit Wright-Pn'tterson AFB, together witJ1 the other tour (4) procurement sub-districts, were to be monitored. by the Prccuremer-t Invest1gations Division in Eead(!W'lrters OSI. J. Soon after OSI bi�eame ope:-at.ional it was ar,parent that procurement investigations could be more ef.tectively conducted 1t.-hen administered under standard OSI district �rocedures ot operation . I
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