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VIII. Offensive and Defensive Systems
The recent concentration on weapons analysis (1963-1968) has been concomitant with the drastic increase in technical collection efforts. During this period heavy emphasis has been placed on the examination of [redacted] the study of new types of electronic signals, and new types of photographic intelligence. The data issuing from these new collection methods required analysis concepts and techniques quite different from those used traditionally by a majority of analysts in the intelligence community. The development of the needed concepts and techniques required inputs from groups with direct knowledge of technologies involved and which, for the most part, weren't available within the Office.
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