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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.

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“Office of Special Investigations”11 pages

  • p. 1 Description of document: US Air Force (USAF) Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) History, OSI…
  • p. 2 …We identified the History of the Office of Special Investigation Report as being responsive to your…
  • p. 14 …the Office at Special Inwatiga.i.ions wa& to consolidate all of theee scattered investigative activitieo…
  • p. 15 …These regional offices headed by OSI Ju.,gioneJ. Directors were statt components. of the regional In…
  • p. 21 …Th• twnt.y-five (25) district offices or t.he Of'tioe ot Speeial. Inwst.§.gatlons…
  • p. 22 …District and Detachment Commanders act as the local representatives at the Office ot Special In"Nlstigations…
  • p. 26 …investigation of the 1n&tt.er ie a delegated rosponsibility c;f the Office of Special…
  • p. 27 …All investigative work pertonaed withie a particular district office area, has tlowd through the district headquarters…
  • p. 29 …All reports of investigative findings have been o.f'fieiall,y classified a.t. least "confidentia…
  • p. 33 …ot the Directorate of Special InTestigationa and twenty-five distr:i ct offices . or the t…
  • p. 73 …The administrative and operational structure of the Office of Special Investigations within the Continental limits of…
1. As antlai;pated at the beginning or the fiaul. -,ear 19 50,
a ma.jor portion of' the 1.Destigativ. ettort •� 11f tlhe OSI
d:IDing "1M ;rea.J' ..,.. d.ffoted ta • aeompli�• o.r the iaw•tl•
gatiw 1111-■iou Ol.)DN.ming aeouri:ty at 1lhe lir J'ol"Ge &ad tile
loyalty ot 11Hil penoi:mel. .Dllring tbia period. th• OSI bapPcmtd
t.ta etfeetiftMH h. bam.ll:ln.g tht.a ua1ped. aMsloa arut d•c•1'i:r&._d
m1 eoonora;y of o.-ratlon thJ"Ough ita oonoolida'b!td Dlttlhod of operation
tmcler an1in.11a•4 dlnte.11d.an.
z. l>un.ns h tlaoal :v-ar ot l9 s:>, OSI �a to,4il8 --•
tm4 160,291 4JO:"Gllt.r,y iDve•tigation.s . Dur.lng th.ta Ulll8 ,-rtod
82.036 ou•a and 160,•'16 OOl'Qllaey in.'ffs:tigat.ione were 0011plit1-4.
'thaN figur•• 1how" that a total of aw, 709 ial'ffatigatlve u•i�nte
wn opeaod ud 232,fOO ••n completed by OSI du:ring tba-t f'i.aeal
J'$O.F11 OU 10 J\Ul,fl J.950., 71,844 cue• remaiued. a P4lnding atatue
.. tAw iaftatica.tlw backlog or the OSI.. 'fho 1ta:biatioal data
twm.ilille4 henh.., lnolu.4-1 all oases handled by tiw OSI th4J
'""*' majority ot whioh oom:llt ot t.ho■e iaftsttgatlona in
the penonnel loyal:tf aacur1V tiald ot investigation.
s. Iwli:vt.dual a�t produotf.:rity aontia.U'Owrl,y :incNM•d
du.t"ing the year w1tllout 4etriunt to the quality or individual
inv•tip:t:lone. lhw.n though uw inftstigatin nqueata ooat:l.nued.
to 'be rece-ived. at .-ppr-o,d.i:ateJv,' the a.- rate at the end of the
yea.r as they had at t...'w boginninc;, during the la.et half of the
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