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means of defending their items. When [redacted] was transferred from OSI to become the basis for FMSAC, the then Deputy Assistant Director [redacted] became a member of the SID Board. Subsequently a member of Project Staff, FMSAC, was assigned this responsibility. To some degree in the early days of the Board and to a large extent in 1964 and 1965, the Board spent many hours reviewing draft items for both substantive and editorial problems. In early 1966, efforts were made to limit Board review to major problems. Thus, the Board currently reviews the articles to determine their worthiness for publication, to ascertain that they are not in conflict with accepted Community or Agency positions, and to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support the conclusions and whether the conclusions are the logical ones to have been drawn from the evidence. During Board sessions, major objections or comments from other Agency offices are considered, and accepted or rejected. The multiplicity of review, while having an overall effect of improving the articles published in the SID, may at the same time be both a temporal and psychological block to publication and thus discourage many analysts.
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