(EST Pub Date) the Office of Scientific Intelligence, 1949-68- (Volume Three, Annexes Viii, Ix, and X)

TOP SECRET Another early effort to obtain outside help was one initiated by Dr. Machle in 1949 to obtain external assistance to study OSI's information organization and retrieval problems. OSI analysts were even then overwhelmed by the vast amount of information reports that flowed into the office daily. The main problems at that time was how to file this information so that it could be made available for future use. The result of this effort was a machine card system in which analysts of the abstracted and coded information on machine cards, - 4 - TOP SECRET