Background

This overview and collection of documents and other material related to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) offer a glimpse of CIA’s overall contribution to the analysis of Soviet capabilities in science and technology during the Cold War. It is by no means intended to be definitive, or even complete, with respect to all the activities associated with the Agency’s scientific and technological capabilities, analysis, and resulting reporting. It does, however, highlight some key events and selected activities that contribute to our understanding of the unique role OSI played in the Agency’s history.

Document Archive

The Original Wizards of Langley

Made available here is a PDF version of the print collateral that accompanied The Original Wizards of Langley symposium.

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Aging Communist Leaders

An Interview with Former DDS&T Albert Wheelon

And the Truth Shall Keep You Free: Recollections by the First Deputy Director for Science and Technology

Memorandum for Special Assistant, Intelligence, Dept. of State from Loftus Becker

The Problem of Scientific and Technical Intelligence

Briefing Note on Advance Portion of NIE 11-5-59 – Soviet Capabilities in Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles

The Case Of The SS-6

General Order Number 13

Identifying The Future Threat

Intelligence Implications Of Disease

LONG-RANGE CAPABILITIES OF THE SOVIET Union_ IN MAJOR SCIENTIFIC FIELDS – 1957-67

Long Range Soviet Scientific Capabilities 1962-70

LONG-RANGE CAPABILITIES OF THE SOVIET Union_ 1962-72

LONG-RANGE CAPABILITIES OF THE SOVIET Union_ IN MAJOR SCIENTIFIC FIELDS 1957-67

LONG-RANGE CAPABILITIES OF THE SOVIET Union_ IN MAJOR SCIENTIFIC FIELDS 1957-67

MILITARY MEDICAL INSTALLATION IN THE SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY AS OF MARCH 1952

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH II (part 1)

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH II (part 2)

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH III – ORGANIZATION, PLANNING, AND CONTROL (Part 1)

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH III – ORGANIZATION, PLANNING, AND CONTROL (Part 2)

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH IV – SPACE VEHICLES

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH V – PROPULSION SYSTEMS

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH VI – GUIDANCE AND CONTROL

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH IX – SPACE MEDICINE

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH X – SPACE BIOLOGY AND ASTROBIOLOGY

THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH PROGRAM MONOGRAPH XI – ASTRONOMICAL ASPECTS

The Problem of Scientific and Technical Intelligence

NIE NUMBER 11-12-55 (Supplement, NIE 11-6-54): SOVIET GUIDED MISSILE CAPABILITIES AND PROBABLE PROGRAMS

NIE 11-3-65: Soviet Strategic Air and Missile Defenses

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE SUMMARY – THE SOVIET ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRAM TO MID-1957

NIE NUMBER 11-5-59: SOVIET CAPABILITIES IN GUIDED MISSILES AND SPACE VEHICLES

NIE NUMBER 11-56 – SOVIET GROSS CAPABILITIES FOR ATTACK ON THE US AND KEY OVERSEAS INSTALLATIONS AND FORCES THROUGH MID 1959

SOVIET CAPABILITIES AND PROBABLE PROGRAMS IN THE GUIDED MISSILE FIELD

NIE NUMBER 11-6-59: SOVIET SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NIE NUMBER 11-8-61: SOVIET CAPABILITIES FOR LONG RANGE ATTACK

NIE NUMBER 11-8-64: Soviet Capabilities for Strategic Attack

NIE 18: THE PROBABILITY OF SOVIET EMPLOYMENT OF BW AND CW IN THE EVENT OF ATTACKS UPON THE US

NIE 65: SOVIET BLOC CAPABILITIES THROUGH 1957

On The Accuracy Of National Intelligence Estimates

The Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series: The Office of Scientific Intelligence 1949-68 (Vol. 1)

The Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series: The Office of Scientific Intelligence 1949-68 (Vol. 2)

The Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series: The Office of Scientific Intelligence 1949-68 (Vol. 3)

OSI Survey Report

Policing a Nuclear Test Ban

Possible Soviet Moves to Exploit the Present Situation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: ORIGINS OF A DIRECTORATE

Scientific And Technical Intelligence Analysis

NIE Number 11-10-57: The Soviet ICBM Program

NIE Number 11-3-67: Soviet Strategic Air and Missile Defenses

Stealth, Countermeasures, and ELINT, 1960-1975

The Case For A Holistic Intelligence

The Enigma Of Soviet BW

The French Nuclear Weapons Program

THE SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE

THE SOVIET BIOASTRONAUTICS RESEARCH PROGRAM

The YO-YO Story: An Electronics Analysis Case History

Validity Study of NIE 11-6-54, Soviet Capabilities and Probable Programs in the Guided Missile Field

Winnowing Wheat From Chaff

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