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VI. Miscellaneous Defunct OSI Publications
As intelligence requirements and interests have varied over the years, OSI has established certain publications to meet these needs and subsequently cancelled these publications when the need no longer clearly existed or when the area of responsibility was removed from the Office. One of the first of these publications was the unclassified Epidemiological Bulletin. This report, which was initiated at about the time of the formation of OSI, was being disseminated regularly in 1949.
The reports were prepared for publication by OSI and issued daily. They contained information on epidemiological conditions and disease outbreaks on a world-wide basis. The Bulletins were disseminated both to the intelligence community and to commercial organizations such as steamship lines and airlines. Approximately 50 copies of the early Bulletin were issued daily; by 1954, it had become a biweekly. These reports were continued until early 1955.
Another area in which OSI once had a very heavy responsibility was that of ELINT and
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