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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.
“Headquarters”12 pages
full authority t.o CQll'.lp,l.ete all -procurement fraud t.ype invest.ipt.ione involnng A.ir FOl"ce p«-eonnel subject to co-urt.s-ms.rtr.1al jur.lsdiction. All p:rocursent investigatciTe reports ha:n been scnened as receiTed to determine: if there weN any indications that .Air Foree syst.U1.S, personnel or directives were at fault. h'be:re euch indicaU.one have b.•en present, OSI inYllletigntive effort has been directed toward d.etenaining the ta.et.a and cil"cmnstanee.s in.-ol"'llld . 5. It being rMdily apparent that such or.erational a..cti'ri:t.y as this could not be effectively conducted at a field level of op,ration , all OSI inyestigations of this natu.re have been auth.or.1.sed, supenised, and controlled by Hea.dqua:rtera OSI through the Procure Invest.igations Divistcn. Procurement invest.iga.tions have been_. in most instances, conducted b.T investigators who ·,:ere especially qualified tor such work. These invest..igations ba'V'e been normal.l,y assigned to district procure.ment. divisions superimpoeed upc:n the organizational. structure or several ot the OSI district offices. Each district procUl'Ell1ent di'rl.Bion ha• been authoriud dil"'Nt coamnieat.ion laterally' wit.ta all ot.ber di strict procu:nmient divisions and wit.h t.he Pro�ent. lnYeat.igat1ona DiYiB:ion at OSI Head�rs . 1.bay ha:r:e been strategical.17 pl.aced t0 at.ford .IWi.Ximw:a operational cove�age wit.hui thoa• areas lffl.&Nl ma jor Air Fore6 proeu.rement actiYities were conducted. District Commande:rl!I, even though not. charged directl,J with the direction and cont:. rol or eueb investigations, ha.ve been 26
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