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asked to assist in the preparation of a special estimate concerned with nuclear energy.
The panel was of value in "selling" annual estimates, after performing a minimum review of the OSI draft. [redacted] support was most helpful in overcoming early opposition from other agencies, particularly the Navy, to the high capabilities given the Soviets in national estimates. In later years, however, the panel has become an overseer of nuclear energy intelligence for the DCI and has tended to be concerned more with judgments on organization and management than with the substance of intelligence.
II. Growth of OSI Contracting
About one third of all funding for OSI up to 1968 has been for external contract support. Although the proportion of the total OSI annual budgets devoted to such support in recent years (44.4% in 1967) has been much greater than in earlier years (17.9% in 1953),
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