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...national security directive on combatting espionage. In it, he called for widespread polygraph testing to cut down on the flow of sensitive information into the hands of enemy agents and enemy journalists. The directive made all Federal employees with access to such information, including Cabinet officials, subject to random lie-detector testing. After the directive was made public, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 said that taking the test "wouldn't bother me a bit." But Secretary of State Shultz would have none of it. "The day in this Government I am told that I'm not trusted...
...difficult to understand why, for instance, a man with a proven sensitivity to such matters as George Shultz sees nothing wrong with such testing. Why is being asked to submit to a urinalysis any less noxious, any less a questioning of his integrity, then being asked to take a lie-detector test...
...length Toad could see his own changes of mood in the handwriting. He could read haste when he had hurried. He thought that handwriting would make a fine lie-detector test, or a foolproof drunkometer. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram...
...TIME last week: "I try to give him my best advice and recommendations . . . but the President gives the leadership, and we try to work together on it. I will claim only to have been involved." Only once has Shultz publicly questioned a Reagan decision--involving not foreign policy but lie-detector tests for Administration officials--and then it was the President who bowed to Shultz's insistence that he would quit if he ever had to take...
...usually circumspect Shultz for taking his defiance public and noted that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has agreed to take a polygraph test. But the White House hastened to head off a confrontation, explaining that the President's directive allows department heads to decide which of their employees must undergo lie-detector tests, and insisting that the plan was aimed at curbing espionage, not--as some critics suspect--unauthorized leaks to the press. Reagan told reporters at week's end that Shultz had been mollified and that the Secretary would not be asked to take a lie-detector test himself. Shultz...