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The lack of OSI participation in OCI publications, and later the national current intelligence publication (Central Intelligence Bulletin), is due to many factors. One of the primary causes probably has been and continues to be the lack of full appreciation on the part of many OSI analysts that the primary responsibility of the Office is the production of intelligence and that the production of national intelligence carries more weight than departmental (Agency) or Office intelligence. Furthermore, the stringent chain of command and internal OSI approval of all items prepared for or coordinated for the OCI publications may make the analyst feel that he need not be responsible for that which he writes or coordinates and makes him either more passive or more irresponsible. Further, the analyst may not have been led to feel by his superiors that he would receive any recognition for his contributions to another Office.
Other factors also have been evident in OSI participation in OCI production. Some of these have been purely physical. Until 1961 when the Agency moved into the Headquarters Building, OSI and OCI were so separated physically that normal day-to-day analyst-to-analyst discussions were very difficult. Additionally the physical separation of OSI made it almost impossible
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