UPCOMING HEARINGS AT THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON USE OF POLYGRAPH

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00338R000300370018-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: January 23, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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23 January 1984
OLL: 84-0304
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Upcoming Hearings at the Senate Armed Services
Committee on Use of Polygraph
1. I talked with Roger Pitkin, DOD, today concerning
the upcoming hearings at the Senate Armed Services Committee
on use of the polygraph. Those hearing, riginall
scheduled for 1 February, have been postponed
undetermined date during the last week of February or the
first week in March.
The first
2. There will be two days of hearings.
session will concentrate technical matters. The Chief
on
the NSA's Polygraph Division,~ will testify
w
do a show
the technical aspects of the po Y9 ?
and tell, including an actual demonstration of-a machine. the Two witnesses who were vinvolved in present
polygraph commissioned by the
technical/scientificworkide~e second demonstate that deal
polygraph does
with policy issues. DOD envisages the following:
(a) An FBI witness to discuss the increasing
CI threat;
(b) CIA and NSA to testify on their respective
polygraph programs, giving an evaluation and
emphasizing the polygraph's utility. General
Faurer is the proposed NSA witness, and Pitkin
suggests that we also have a senior official testify
for the CIA; and
(c) General Stilwell, or possibly Deputy
Secretary of Defense Will Taft, will testify on the
DOD's proposed polygraph program.
3. Pitkin said that the Armed Services Committee
staff indicated that they would let DOD handle the hearings
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as DoD wished. The staff let it be known that they will not
put on the kind of show that the Brooks Committee had.
Deputy Director, ice or juagLa ative Liaison
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