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In order to improve the condition of scientific intelligence and to carry out its function as coordinator of scientific intelligence within the community, OSI took the lead in establishing the Scientific Intelligence Committee (SIC) under the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC). The SIC was established by DCID 3/3, dated 28 October 1949. Thereafter it was felt by some members of the Community that OSI abandoned its right to correlate and evaluate departmental scientific intelligence for the purpose of producing national scientific intelligence by entering very heavily into competitive research and production in the same field as the military departments. As a consequence, OSI came to be viewed as a fifth wheel in the intelligence community rather than as a coordinator of intelligence.
Nonetheless, OSI believed that production of intelligence rightly came within its purview.
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