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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
t:t.aoal ,-ar 19 50., OSI wu able to keep paoe w1� the �te at wbioh new 1lff9st1gatiw l'ffq11Asta 1J8N being noe1n4. During thia periocl iihe 'b&ok:log of pending ouea on the reoord �f' the orga.ni1&t.ion were red.uoed to e. minor degree. However. no au st!;u'l.tial gains a6ainat this pending backlog could be ma.de. During the month of J'une 19 50 OSI OpeWlld 7, 511 GUh and complewd. s.206. Oaring thia aaa, p,triod. 22-,091 cc:irolla:ey in.,..s.tigationa '1Rlre opened a.n4 13, 208 oampl•ted.. Thia repneentecl a. total or ao, 802 brneti.p:tJ:n a.nlguanta opeXMd and 21, 414. ocmpl•ted duri.ng the 1qt month of the t11oal year. This JtOl"k:load ·n• aoooapU■hed by 468 invaatiga.tiw pe:rao�l a.otu&lq perf'ond.ag �•·tl&•tive d\.\tiea during the month o f ,.h.ue 19 50. An a:qirage ot approlWU.t.ely 44 investigative uaigWll9nts were eampleted by ea.ch &gfnt 4urlng that month. 4 . Even though addit1ond pecnonnel had been &1.-thorlMd. the)r oould not be NQN1ted Md trained in suf ficient quantity" to e:f'toct an incueaae in penonnel w1 thin the tl'uit.ed. State■ during th-, t:laoal year. and ••t tho requirements ot overaeaa Air COUll!Ulllda for tra.ilbld in,,.atigatiw �NolllMll . s. All a result or the .studiee and projeota eMD&tiug tram the reoommandationa o.ontained. in the Air University study of the USAF Security Clearanoe prograa and. aim:1.br a tudi•s by the O.part •nt11 of Ana:, md lf•r.;• pla.na tor modification of the Department
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