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...plotted the phony raid to make himself look good, he fired him. During the FBI investigation brought on by Cain's dismissal, it was discovered that, while on the sheriffs staff, he had helped the Mafia smoke out a suspected stoolie in its midst by having a lie detector test administered privately to five bank robbers-for the benefit of the Mob. One robber flunked the test; he was later shotgunned to death, presumably...
...that we were sincerely trying to pursue a social evil." Whenever this reticence was broken down, the team took extraordinary precautions to document material. To reduce the chances of reporting errors, key interviews were conducted by two newsmen. Injured victims were asked to provide medical records and given lie-detector tests. People with police records were dropped, as were witnesses whose accounts proved to contain even the smallest inaccuracies...
...year-old mandate to clean up the streets. An enthusiastic Democrat-for-Nixon, Rizzo has been in trouble for the last two months since a secret police force was discovered investigating his enemies in Philadelphia politics. The Philadelphia Daily News asked him to submit to a lie detector test--a source of evidence he has always backed as a cop. He failed it miserably, declaring that his test was "not worth the paper it's printed...
...breach of confidentiality. Under the U.S. Court of Appeals order, only Sirica is supposed to hear the tapes initially. Even if Sirica wins authorization to have the tapes examined, the fact remains that the technology of detection is not so far advanced as the technology of deception.* The detector must rely on an oscilloscope, which translates electrical impulses of sound into visual patterns -green wavy lines-on a screen. These patterns are altered by erasures or breaks in a tape. But a skillful masking job does not interrupt the pattern and leaves the impression that no editing has been done...
...month and a half of gentle persuasion. Sometimes the two men would drive off together on the lonely Tennessee and Kentucky roads, talking for hours about every phase of the case. In mid-August, Turnblazer declared that he had something to say and agreed to talk while a lie detector monitored his replies. Told that "the box" showed that his account was incomplete, Turnblazer said. "O.K., here's the whole story...