Word: lie-detector
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...Administration officials take lie-detector tests, they will undergo an experience familiar to accused criminals, suspected leakers and candidates for sensitive jobs both inside and outside Government. The subject is hooked up to the machine with rubber belts placed across the stomach and chest, electrodes attached to the fingertips and a blood-pressure cuff wrapped around the arm. The sensors measure pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing and perspiration as the subject answers a series of yes-or-no questions. Explains Sergeant Michael McFadden of the Washington police department: "There's always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that...
Since the struggle to plug leaks in Washington is certain to be a losing one, there was no great alarm in the capital when the President on March 11 signed a new National Security Decision Directive. It gave various department and agency heads the right to force lie-detector tests on employees suspected of passing classified information to reporters. The announcement was greeted with puzzlement, since many leaks come from these same officials when it suits their purpose. Last week, on closer scrutiny, the order took on a more ominous...
According to the investigation jointly conducted by the AFL-CIO and the Salvadoran government, the killers were José Dimas Valle Acevedo, 35, and Santiago Gómez González, 32, ex-corporals in El Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming...
...viewed by witnesses of the incident. However, before appearing, he was allowed to dye his red hair black, cut it and shave off his mustache. Although nobody recognized him in the lineup, he was later identified by the killers. López Sibrian was also ordered to undergo a lie-detector test, and failed...
...mushrooming firms offer a bewildering variety of services and devices (see box). Some merely sweep for electronic bugs and telephone taps several times a year. Others conduct prehiring investigations, give lie-detector tests, place undercover agents on assembly lines and even scrutinize potential customers...