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in estimates has generally averaged between 15 and 20 per year, with a substantial contribution made to about one-half of these.
Throughout the entire period of OSI participation in the preparation of national estimates, the Office has strongly supported this program while at the same time realizing that much of the intelligence provided by OSI did not find its way into national estimates. Many in OSI believed that the effect of science and technology on the economic and political postures of world powers was not sufficiently recognized by ONE and ONE did not recognize that the hope of emerging nations to attain advanced status hinged largely on the development of their technical strengths. In 1962, for example, the OSI annual report pointed out that "a previously operating factor -- the increasing community awareness of the relationship between scientific competence and politico-economic stability -- played a lesser role in that year because of ONE emphasis on shorter, politically-oriented NIEs, wherein the short-term relationship cannot usually be demonstrated." In an effort to improve this situation, OSI as early as 1953 pointed out that a competent scientific and technical representation on the Board of National Estimates
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