Word: polygraphers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have great confidence in the polygraph. If this machine says a man lied, he lied." So said Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo shortly before submitting to a lie-detector test. Rizzo was being tested along with Peter J. Camiel, city Democratic Party chairman, who accused Rizzo of trying to bribe him in his choice of a Democratic candidate for district attorney. The mayor lied on six of the ten questions, said the lie detector, while Camiel told the truth on all. After the test, Rizzo proclaimed his innocence, reaffirmed his confidence in the polygraph-then demanded...
...been presented to the Soviets during the first phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, then under way in Helsinki. When the U.S. later tried to take a stiffer approach, the Soviets, believing that the Beecher article outlined the real fallback position, resisted. The incident brought CIA polygraph experts to the State Department to search for the source of the leak (it is not known whether he was found). The leak was a legitimate cause for worry, though there is no evidence that the disclosure had any major or lasting impact on the shape of the treaty that finally resulted...
...From reading the article "Truth or Consequences" [March 19j I am of the opinion that your reporter-researcher is quali fied only to serve hamburgers. The commercial use of the polygraph is the only thing that is keeping many small and marginal businesses afloat. This machine is no sinister monster designed to deny people the right to earn an honest living. It is rather a scientific instrument that can guarantee the basic honesty of persons placed in positions of trust...
...polygraph is the best friend an innocent man ever...
...Polygraphers argue that businessmen simply must protect themselves against dishonest employees. "There comes a time when your privacy and mine has to be weighed against the company's being stolen blind and put out of business," says J. Kirk Barefoot, former president of the 900-member American Polygraph Association. So many businessmen obviously agree that, for a while at least, many employees will have to regard a polygraphic game of truth or consequences as a normal part of their working lives...