(Classified) Program

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04007A000700030004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 29, 1957
• Content Type: MF

Approved For lease 1999/08/27 CIA-RDP78 007A000700030004-8
29 Nov 57
MKMORANDUM FOR THE FILE
FROM : Chief, Personnel Security Division
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1. On 27 Nov 57, while discussing the polygraph program
with the Director of Security, he stated that personnel who are
being converted from staff agent to staff employee need not be
nol.yoraphed if each has been polygraphed favorably within a
year or so of the time of the conversion and the security file
is clear.
30 and. D1)3/FPS to polygraph the personnel.
2. The Director of. Security also stated that, in regard
to senior grades returning from overseas (11,.'s and above), he
felt that the Chief, Personnel Security Division, with the
concurrence of the Deputy Director of Security, PPS could waive
polygraph interviews of these personnel, if the last polygraph
was of recent date and favorable and no question exists in the
security file of the Subject. In discussion of this with the
DDS/PPS, he suggested that the Chief/P$D sign off on all such
cases, unless he felt there was some question in a case which
should be referred to higher authority.
3. The Director of Security also stated that he personally
wished to see any case involving re-polygraph of overseas returnees
of senior grades where a recommendation has been made by the Chief,
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