OFFICE OF SECURITY ACTION PLAN/OBJECTIVES NUMBER: B57105

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00823R000200050086-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: August 8, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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8 IWG 1975
MLMORANDUM FOR. Acting Deputy Director for Adeinistration
SUBJECT Office of Security Action Plan/Objective
Nuaber; B5/133
Complete durieg PY 1975 a study of the
impact of a prohibition of the non-
operation/al use of the polygraph and similar
techniques and develop alternatives to
the polygraph in the investigation and
adjudication of non-operational cases.
1. This memorandum is for information only.
2. During FY-TS, the Office of Security completed a
study of the impact on Age cy security, should non-operational
use of the pelygraph be prohibited. As part of the study,
a number of options were considered as possible substitutes
for the polygraph. A report of the study is attached as Tab A.
3. After a careful review of the Tab A alternatives,
we conclude that there is no currently available substitute
for the polygraph. However, since this objective called ff.or
presentation of a specific alternative, we have chosen to
present a plan which we call the Securit" Risk Test, (Tab
4. There is mixed professional opinion as to whether
is oven feasible to produce a product such as the Sectqlty
Test. Such a test, if produced, would be necessarfri?trid-
to current security standards and policy which are always
subject to change. Any secb change could invalidate the test
and require additional expenditure of manpower to develop a
now one. Purthermore, there is the possibility that trio sane
legislative proposals which seek to outlaw Lb? polygraph woul4
be extended to prohibit the use of stress-in4ucing psychological
tests of tnis type.
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S. in our opinion there is no assurance that the
Security Risk Test could be nade to produce meaningful results.
Therefore, in even forwarding it to your office we have grave
reservations as to its potential to substitute for the polygrap
We intend, accordingly, to take no further action to pursue
Tab B and will consider it Instead a "shelf item.'
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Director of Security
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