SUPPLEMENTARY COMMENTS ON OSI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003200190016-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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It is recommended that the Office of Scientific Intelligence
be transferred from DDI to DDR for a number of compelling
reasons discussed with you. OSI would continue to use the DDI
as its primary channel for reporting substantive intelligence and
contributing to National Intelligence problems. This daily OSI
support to OCI would work precisely as it now does. Scientific
and technical contributions to the Board of National Estimates would
go directly to ONE through the USIB Committees as they now do.
OSI would continue to participate in interdisciplinary DDI memoranda
via the Panel mechanism recently established. It would be hoped that
OSI could stay integrated physically with the rest of DDI.
However, the DDI would ?e relieved of the management
responsibility for OSI. OSI would be set in a scientific and technical
environment which for management reasons is now absolutely
essential. Selection of supervisors for OSI and decisions on re-
organization would be made in an atmosphere of thorough understanding
of its problem and common professional experience. I believe that
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such an arrangement could be made to work and would have several
important benefits. Joint use of contractors
would be simplified and bring
analysis /development contracts under the general R&D budget
review mechanism (see above). Joint use of the scientific computing
center in DDR (see above) and its capabilities would be extremely
useful. It would also facilitate short term utilization of OSI
personnel on technical collection development and operations without
requiring organizational boundary crossing. We are all agreed that
a periodic rotation of scientific personnel between analysis
development is highly desirable and now could be accomplished
more easily and naturally within the same organization. An
organizational fuzing of analysis and development (not reporting) would
ensure prompt technical feedback from foreign developments to
&.i.r own programs.
Such a joint, would
enhance the contribution of OSI air defense analysis to current and
future OSA development programs.
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