Word: lie-detector
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Oliver was a witness tailor-made for Bailey's dramatic methods. On the stand, he startled the prosecution by declaring: "This whole proceeding is completely unfair. [The prosecution] knows he is innocent as well as I do." Bailey introduced as testimony part of a lie-detector test, which indicated that Oliver had told the truth about the boy's killing. When Eckhardt showed that the same test also indicated that Oliver harbored feelings of "tremendous hostility" toward the prosecution, a violent shouting match ensued between Eckhardt and Bailey in which Eckhardt accused Oliver of deliberately trying to obstruct...
...employees and reported revenues last year of $2,100,000. Spreading out, I.B.I, has already sold franchises in Miami and Minneapolis. Like many security companies, it goes in for all varieties of protection -uniformed guards, undercover detectives, police dogs, electronic alarms, armored cars and lie-detector service. It also has a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to teach security techniques to 250 trainees, many of whom were hard-core unemployed...
...believe. According to slim, handsome Joel Saikin, 25, his father Samuel, 49, had murdered the go-go dancer in his Chicago warehouse and enlisted his son's help in disposing of her body. According to the elder Saikin, Joel was the girl's killer. Joel passed a lie-detector test, and the authorities put papa on trial for murder. But after hearing all the evidence in a Chicago courtroom last week, a jury of nine men and three women concluded that the truth was past finding...
...North Vietnamese intelligence system, the CNC (Cue Nghien Cuu-Central Office for Research and Studies). Chuyen was picked up in Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border and brought to Nha Trang for "hard" interrogation. Later he was taken to Saigon, shot full of sodium pentothal and given a lie-detector test.The interrogations convinced the Green Berets that Chuyen was a double agent serving Hanoi as well as the U.S. Because the CIA has overall responsibility for secret agents in Viet Nam, it was notified at once. The CIA sent the fatal reply: "Terminate with extreme prejudice." A few days later...
Protection can also mean death for informers. Richard Cain, once chief investigator for the Cook County, Ill., sheriff's office, gave lie-detector tests to a quintet of bank robbery suspects. Cain, now in prison, was not after the guilty man but in search of the FBI informant among the five. The tipster, Guy Mendolia Jr., was subsequently murdered...