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find a workable formula, they were finally discontinued in the FY 1962 program. Also priority grouping became unnecessary, for as additional demands were made on OSI, low-priority work had to be cut back to the minimum levels consistent with OSI coverage responsibilities. Currently, all external research projects must be related to high priority Office objectives except those that pertain to the NIS, a low priority obligation that is still being levied on OSI.
When Wheelon became head of OSI in 1963, he attempted to make an official policy of what had actually been a previous practice of keeping a portion of external contracting funds available to take advantage of unanticipated opportunities or meet needs as they occurred. It was realized that many new developments in scientific and technical intelligence simply could not be anticipated. The policy of flexible programming, as it was called, was aimed at avoiding the trap of being forced by annual budgeting procedures to commit all funds too far in advance.
XI. Administrative Problems
By FY 1957, the OSI external support program had grown [redacted] and began to impose an
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