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In no case, however, are the conclusions of an article included in the Digest without being fully approved by the Office. Occasionally the SID has served as a mechanism for publishing articles prepared by offices of the Agency other than OSI or FMSAC when the producing office had no suitable publication. ORR (now OER) has been the primary user of this mechanism.
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The SID has never been restricted in either substantive or geographic area coverage with the exception of the early 1950's when the coverage of the Office of Scientific Intelligence in the field of military research and development was limited to a surveillance role by DCID 3/4. In the early 1950's a fairly large proportion of the items in the SID was devoted to basic research. This proportion has since decreased as the number of items directly related to military research and development has increased. During the 1960's those items dealing with organization and manpower have generally declined
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