DEALING WITH CREDIBILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200590002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 7, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
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t~euli-n With ar c ibili,ty,
;;ary to "auiiiinister lie detector tests without
telling the victim he is being tested. In the
trodes and sundry other equipment that can
measure a person's emotional responses to
questions he is asked.
In t1je en::. debate on the bill to protcet
j the privacy c:::overnment employes, Senator
Sam J. Ervin alluded to the Central"I elli-
ence~ encenc~ s "wig le s att.. The wiggle seat, it turned cut, is ..nalr that is really
lie detector.. ConceaIe.. inside its metal arms,
padded back and cushioned seat are elec.
thereby exposing them unmistakably for what
they are to everyone else in the room. If that
is the case, we would caution the CIA against
letting the chairs slip into the general Earn.
ture pool, for Government off?ices.. linagne
the sight of half of official Washit'~-on sail-
ing out, of windows everywhere!
can be summarily catapulted from their seats, s_
device so that all prevaricators using them
venture that they would not be complete(
I As far as we know we have never sat in
one of the CIA's non-chairs, but we would
that is not a chair? After all, CIA agents
always pretend they are something else-
tourists; students, labor leaders, a potted palm
spy game, deception is so ingrained-witness
the martini olive that is really a microphone
and the c.,fare~te lighter that is really a
mera -that the question probably never
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