needs of scientific intelligence. Most of this was done on an ad hoc basis as a result of specific requests rather than in conformity with any well established program. Nonetheless, by 1951 the Office was planning the production of scientific intelligence--at least to a limited extent--in consultation with the Office of National Estimates; with the Research and Development Board, and the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group in the Department of Defense; with the Interdepartmental Committee on International Security; and with other organizations of the Government concerned with science and technology. Shortly thereafter, the use of consultants to aid in Office planning was instituted.
In 1954 and 1955, partly as a result of an IG recommendation and partly because the Office had acquired sufficient background to determine sensibly the needs of the consumers of scientific intelligence and the capability of the Office to fill these needs, a formal mechanism for programming was set up.
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