WHITE HOUSE TIGHTENS SECRECY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100030152-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 152
• Publication Date: March 14, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Si Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100030152-0
ARTICLE APPF.AP.E.D
ON FtGE / -Z
WASHINGTON TIMES
14 MARCH 1983
National
BREEFILY / Capital
White House tightens secrecy
The Reagan administration has issued an order
,requiring all government employees to cooperate with
federal agents investigating cases of unauthorized
disclosure of classified information and setting for
the first time a standard policy on the use of poly-
graph machines.
The directive, which tightens procedures of han-
dling classified information by government
employees, said "adverse consequences will follow an
employee's refusal to cooperate with a polygraph
examination:' The lie detector devices cannot provide
evidence in federal courts on criminal cases because
they are of questionable reliability.
Administration officials said many more federal
employees will have to sign secrecy agreements as a
result of the directive.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100030152-0