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Under these various headings, OSI began the production of needed scientific intelligence. In its quest to provide the broad interdisciplinary studies ranging from basic research to weaponry development, OSI began increasingly to impinge on what the services considered their areas of responsibility. This led in turn to the issuance of DCID 3/4 which in essence limited OSI production to studies in the basic and applied research areas and assigned the task of reporting on military hardware to the military agencies. Subsequently, OSI was authorized to produce scientific and technical intelligence as a service of common concern and as required to fulfill the statutory responsibilities of the DCI under DCID 3/5 (new series), issued in February 1959.
Types of OSI Reporting and Division of Effort
Since its establishment, OSI has produced intelligence in three general categories; publications prepared to support intelligence issuances of other offices, responses to specific ad hoc requests, and reports on self-initiated research. Reporting in the first category
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