SUBMISSION OF LETTER TO SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTED SUPPORTING DOD POLYGRAPH EXPANSION

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2009
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 6, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Clair E. George
Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
SUBJECT: Submission of Letter to Senate Armed Services
Committee Supporting DOD Polygraph Expansion
1. The Department of Defense (DOD) is scheduled to appear
before the Senate Armed Services Committee this Wednesday,
7 March, to explain its proposal to expand the use of the
polygraph within the Department. DOD has asked for whatever
assistance the Agency can provide in supporting this proposed
expansion of the polygraph before the Committee.
2. For this purpose, we have prepared with DOD a letter to
Senator Tower (attached at Tab A) for your signature, which
endorses this expanded use of the polygraph at DOD as
consistent with your statutory responsibility to protect
intelligence sources and methods. DOD believes that the
inclusion of this letter in the Committee record on this
subject will be of considerable benefit.
/s/ Clair F.
Clair E. George
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0 7 MAR 1984
The Honorable John Tower
Chairman
Committee on Armed Services
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
I understand that your Committee will consider the
Department of Defense proposal to expand use of the polygraph
at a hearing scheduled for 7 March 1984. The essential feature
of the proposed expansion would permit the heads of Defense
components to establish a limited, counterintelligence-scope
polygraph interview as a condition of access to classified
information protected within special access programs created
pursuant to Executive Order 12356. These special access
programs include intelligence programs, as well as research and
development, and operational activities of particular
sensitivity.
I wholeheartedly endorse the Defense proposal. As you
know, I am required by law to protect intelligence sources and
methods (50 U.S.C. S403(d)(3); 403g). It has been the
experience at both CIA and NSA after over thirty years of use,
that the polygraph is a uniquely effective investigative tool
in developing information of security significance with respect
to persons who will have access to intelligence sources and
methods and other sensitive information. Its use for this
purpose elsewhere in the government, however, has been limited,
notwithstanding the fact that these departments and agencies
often have access to exactly the same information.
The Defense Department proposes a very limited expansion,
both in terms of those affected by the requirement and in terms
of the effects on particular individuals. Clearly, however, it
will provide more security safeguards for our most sensitive
intelligence programs, involving Defense personnel, and will
more effectively ensure that these programs are not penetrated
by hostile intelligence agents.
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I urge, therefore, the Committee to support this
initiative, and permit Defense to proceed with its
implementation.
With your permission, I ask that this letter be placed in
the record of the hearing on this proposal.
Sincerely,
7s/ WIN= J. Casey
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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