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...discovered that last winter the two buddies made a trip to Mexico and took the trouble to hide their travels from their superiors. Upon re-examining the record of a routine lie-detector test, the FBI found signs that Mitchell was something less than emotionally robust. Agents also discovered that he had been consult ing a private psychiatrist, presumably out of concern for homosexual tendencies...
...detector started work last fall, and on Dec. 3 Irma Argandona, a student from Bolivia, noted by scanning the raw data that something unusual had happened at nine minutes after midnight...
...attorney, had been studying the case for weeks. "This is a classic suicide, a textbook case," Olsen told Robinson. "The evidence for suicide is so great that the only evidence I could accept to prove murder would be a confession by Pecho, confirmed by a polygraphy [lie detector] test." As both Robinson and Olsen knew, Pecho had been given four polygraphy tests, none of which indicated that he was lying when he stated his innocence...
...only does the lie-detector test benefit the boss, but it is also a boon to the employee, says Devine. When a frozen-food distributor called in Devine to find out who was pilfering $1,000 worth of food each month, the losses stopped immediately. Result: management gave raises, boosted starting pay $10 a week. In another case when $42 in cash disappeared from a service station, the three attendants voluntarily asked Devine for a lie-detector test. Devine said they were honest, sent them back to the job. A few days later a customer returned the money, saying...
Devine says he is aware of the problems of violations of privacy and the insulting connotation of the tests. But he insists that the machines' quizzes are more accurate than interviewing with trick questions or employing company spies. A lie-detector test, he says, is not too much to ask of a prospective employee, and Devine sees the day when they will be as accepted and as widely used as physical examinations...