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C. Scientific Intelligence Digest
Background and Philosophy
The Scientific Intelligence Digest (SID) is an outgrowth of the Scientific Intelligence Bulletin which was first issued in July 1951. The Bulletin was established to meet OSI's responsibilities for reporting current scientific and technical intelligence under CIA
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The Bulletin was distributed to those organizations within the Agency and the Intelligence Community that had a direct interest in scientific and technical intelligence. OSI Division chiefs met weekly to review, select, and edit those items submitted by the divisions for inclusion in the Bulletin.
In April 1952 the name of the publication was changed to the Scientific Intelligence Digest, and in September 1953 it was being issued as a regularly scheduled (bi-weekly) publication. In early 1953, items
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