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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...
Defense contractors and high-tech firms have been notorious for lax security. At TRW, according to Boyce, "security was a joke." He and his co-workers used the code-destruction blender in TRW's ultrasecret "black vault" for mixing banana daiquiris. The Boyce scandal forced TRW to tighten up, and other firms as well are becoming more careful, contend authorities in Silicon Valley. The military is also lax. Says retired Admiral Clarence Hill: "When I was a sub commander in World War II, we never sent anything over four lines. Everything had to be coded and decoded by hand...
...British government last month, has given an extraordinary account of Soviet involvement in Afghanistan-perhaps the greatest blot on Brezhnev's career-as seen by the KGB. Kuzichkin, who defected to the British last June, had served under cover in Iran for five years. He was in the ultrasecret "Directorate S, "which controls "illegals," Soviet-born agents abroad. In an exclusive interview in London last week with TIME's Frank Melville, Kuzichkin said: 1) Brezhnev himself overruled repeated advice from Yuri Andropov's KGB not to turn Afghanistan into a Soviet satellite, 2) Afghan President Babrak Karmal...
...classifications higher than TOP SECRET. In the past, officials have put their most sensitive documents in these nameless cubbyholes, keeping them out of the public eye indefinitely. No one knows how many of them exist. But from now on, department heads will have to justify these ultrasecret classifications in writing to the Oversight Office. Unless renewed, they will expire in five years...
Neither Stewart nor Margulis was a member of the ultrasecret inner circle of so-called executive assistants. These six men, five of them Mormons, kept a 24-hour-a-day watch over Hughes and screened all his communications. According to Stewart and Margulis, the executive aides acted in effect as his keepers, at salaries ranging as high as $110,000 a year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner...