POLYGRAPH TESTS UNRELIABLE, PENTAGON DOCTOR TELLS BRASS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00263R000100240014-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 14
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

:Docttor, e was,
the hlealth affairs director felt it
the senior adviser" in the
DETECTORS. FrO?a his duty as warning that wide use rise Weinberger of
Weinberger within the _entan health field to apprise well
hi& of p olygrap r ? own views- on the polygraphs
could be -a public relations drsaster-as, those of experts in field. The
co
memos. adds a + r Bear) was dated Dec. aW,
Catto said the Beaty mY own Public memo
hen it was a classified
technical rationale- lt~' 82;-w of Bea pemtt having eeIt wdelassifie d March t5.
after hava-physrooCattQ said yesterday that W~ein-
Baryero a Brinker,;mak,t focused on" the poly-
preii rge r "hasn
v of=the litera a h iue yet?-and. that .the_Pen-:
his memp
de , the.
ma .. clarma in ~ sxgeneral 'counse@;
dent tagon
Tit' LV, fs overseeing the matter at
elllbe> `Col p r as
-onsco?.the Y8~1 Ir ,the mo .. directive goes beyond
detect'' a; e: m. = m ment. n
rracYune cwt xw j ;the one draft
t he s 'y cal 'ordering departments
causes other than ;b3'
feral , ail ulations that-would enable them-
surp?nse or angerquire- polygraph tests and pun
fe8r, to re tar .to submit:
-Utej-,setWW,: asida' the w tsh, employes: wha refused.
the
e
is flaw
en rhatethetheorY We haKveiorY to~them>"hia W'k of .lie
a blame
cy Taft,.when CT
1Ygp h,
beenable to loeata.two. sc3enttificalC detector tests; said of the pi?? m
' table studies so far. "yy Tplon ' Oi IJSW,i ';.W ith ilimitations .
et some benefit from
zl g n
the- " er the Y > 72 .: F mind.,: Q. Ca le
Cent-;JA-the other accuraeY r rt~ It can clear:; peop, he said, and
4=r le behaving badly that
1 .1a "dit "peop
rceat~ mi lassifies in'incae r }`
0 -The poly, *Ph'--sc ou had no suspicion of
ant s liars- In one study, .~~y eery launched
people a were ;~The? Pentagon last y "I 1
t 9 peicentoE truthful subjects 1 , .- . 1 estigation in a vain effort to.
red d ptve In another ste ., to The Washing
nt of th. rnnocent weieM~ find who: disclosed :internal
ton Post'; the. finding _ in
that. it
ed a ? y ' .Defense :Department relw.
closed his memo to-Q1 would cost $75U billion. more, over-
lyy statu>p. 4LtZ have nor five years than Regan had budgeted
B ... to, solve the
41 the forces the military said lt'
vae lam of ... buy
~ of secu leaks?ould need to carry out his policies.
it jfor ~ w T feel it"isriw?p01?t'?o'yon The Pentagon notified a Pentagon.
conCe Qft e.serious scientific `
official who had; t11 that, gion
x.:. "about}thia, theory of andth
ng
graph=recta dun
h ?,h,
grp that he was ;tor be removed from his
of P?
r,;r,tte. o 3 ? . ." _ : r,o :fob. but he . eventually_ l~clearedd
Nor,, the de
tithe stash enticr Y of. the memor r' ,1 -x ~; ~,~ ,
t
`?-;~"~ ...Pct. *`f'! - - c .p1R`~~",y, ~.
~~-~?. ~s -. . ~a ~ ? - :Yates
__ Committee
ouSe y, ? _'
River
5 i for c
er ndin
al
incentives
vided
department pro
bur?~nott~. wer.
Ualted Preee I red a market for the po
l '
T- eliminate federa and ensu
,. measure ,to Brown'" said his=amendment was-.
Clinch Kiver. Breedernded to kill the breeder
funding for the- not inte u
r. was approve yesterday by tint willing
..+y t
House ~ to ga ahead with the
the pro-
?a.prolect If suitable-`cost sharing Is,
mmr
_ . O
,~ achieved;' Brown said i -'
ct n ; .
.~{off to arrange private a financing ` The' House last : y eliminate
Sccience and-Technol `- the 'reactor, to make
,_The House for funding
>gy Committee :voted to b6 fo more nuclear fuel-than it uses, tonal
~?T
;,,,e,sdmlent h-trod aC y c *,.f _ tct have it restored fn's congress
L.- tsrown t,,;., t., .- w; nference cou>,+LWte t--
G fop federal funding for end-wt -w-conference
in the Senate by one vote .
r,:a: trAf p'Xo pjr yta
C 2 9$~~1 1u ~$F? ? ~
our?rrieandMaD' i?!='
Pio-ORWI
mt
VC1600-ZENITH sr
Portable Color Video
~a,nera. 6: t Power Zoom Lens .1 i $499 * ? =1 t VR97
Built-in ,Videc
with Macao Focus. mwoe