Word: polygraph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Silverman began his inquiry a year later, he took Furino up on the polygraph offer. Furino still denied knowing Donovan. But officials say Furino flunked the test-and not just once. "Freddie took a dive six times," claims one investigator. Whether Furino also denied any acquaintance with Donovan in his grand jury testimony has not been revealed. But he disappeared from his New Jersey trucking company office shortly afterward, on June...
...Washington for protection and lodged with an official of the AFL-CIO, under whose auspices Hammer and Pearlman had been working on land reform when they were murdered. The labor organization has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to their killers. While in Washington, Torres passed a polygraph test and convinced U.S. officials that she was a truthful witness...
...relevant" for refusing security clearance because of the "undue risk that the individual may be exposed to pressure by hostile intelligence services." The CIA keeps no statistics, but Kameny believes that "substantial" numbers of gays have been dismissed over the years, usually for lying about their sex lives during polygraph tests...
Trying to find that edge for Jimmy Carter, Caddell has used some offbeat techniques. During the conventions, he wired up more than 100 "focus group" volunteers around the country with a kind of emotion-revealing polygraph to monitor their reactions to Ronald Reagan's and Carter's acceptance speeches, noting which passages excited them and which stirred no response. But the real key to his operation is almost constant polling, surveys remarkable for their numbers, length and depth...
...soaring popularity of polygraphs in private industry has somewhat overshadowed controversies about them in law enforcement, although their use in that area is also increasing. Last year the FBI administered 1,900 tests, 800 more than in 1978. Rarely, however, does polygraph evidence find its way into court. Because of doubts about its reliability, most state and federal courts will not admit it, and those that do generally require that both sides agree to its introduction...