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When Shultz flew home to Washington last week to report to the President, the first item on his agenda had little to do with his travels. The Secretary firmly told the President in private that he opposed a national security directive, signed by Reagan on Nov. 1, authorizing lie-detector tests for thousands of Government employees and private contractors who handle sensitive information. Questioned by reporters, Shultz said that he considers polygraph testing ineffective, that it often implicates innocent people and that trained spies can easily avoid detection. Asked whether he would ever take such a test, the Secretary replied...
Ronald Reagan has tried several times to authorize wide use of lie-detector tests but on each occasion has backed down in the face of opposition from Congress or his own Administration. Confronted by the need to police some 100,000 Government employees and contractors who have access to ultrasecret national security information, the President is trying once again. The Los Angeles Times disclosed that Reagan had signed a national security directive on Nov. 1 providing for the polygraphing of federal contractors and employees, including Cabinet members...
...Reagan Administration has tried to stop leaks through a series of expanded restrictions on U.S. employees, including lie-detector tests; insiders say that since taking office the Administration has had a steady average of 20 to 30 investigations in progress. This activity might increase as the Pentagon moves toward high-tech, supersecret weaponry, such as the proposed Star Wars antimissile system. Moreover, to the alarm of civil libertarians, the Administration now claims that leakers can be jailed under an existing law: the Espionage...
...take him out." According to the ABC show, Rewald's company had provided cover for several CIA operations, including the arrangement of secret arms shipments to Syria and Taiwan. The CIA denied the story, and two weeks ago ABC issued a "clarification." Barnes had refused to take a lie-detector test, said ABC Anchor Peter Jennings, and checking showed that his "charges cannot be substantiated and we have no reason to doubt the CIA'S denial...
...Wiretaps revealed that Miller had agreed to fly to Vienna with Svetlana on Oct. 9 to meet with a high-level KGB official and that he had already secured his passport, she their tickets. On Sept. 28, Miller was called into the Los Angeles field office, then given lie-detector tests, fired and arrested. A search of his bungalow uncovered an embarrassing array of classified documents, including the original file on Svetlana Ogorodnikova. In her rundown Hollywood apartment, investigators found a spy kit, complete with microdots land cipher pads...