DCID 1/14 REVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000500140083-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: August 18, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
TO:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Washington, D.C. 20520
August 18, 1981
Acting STAT
Chairman DCI Security Committee
FROM: Louis C. Kachulis, Alternate
State Department Member
SUBJECT: DCID 1/14 Revision
The Department of State has, once again reviewed the
recommendation of the Investigative Standards Working Group
pertaining to the use of the polygraph as a prerequisite for
access to sensitive compartmented intelligence information.
As we have indicated in previous correspondence that while
the value of the polygraph may be irrefutable in terms of a
scientific measurement based on empirical data, there are
psychological obstructions and, in fact, severe limitations
in terms of personnel acceptance which would preclude the
Department of State's use of polygraph screening as a means
of determining reliability. Although polygraph results may
play an important role in establishing an individual's
complicity or innocence in criminal cases, its use is
strictly voluntary. In non-criminal proceedinags the mere
suggestion of polygraph testing not only connotes the
surrender of certain rights by the individual but also implies
a level of mistrust.
While there may be a valid use for polygraph analysis in
select instances involving confrontations such as cases with
counterintelligence overtones, the proposed routine use of
such technology by the Department would cause considerable
controversy and subject the security screening process to
intense criticism. Despite the overwhelming evidence and
statistics which clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of
the polygraph, the unavoidable fact is that polygraphs are
viewed as depersonalizing and an unreasonable means of
examing the individual's character.
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Finally, I assure you our delay in responding to the original
request is not due to any lack of interest or concern for
the Working Group's findings and recommendations. Our delay,
rather, stems from our desire to fully air the use of the
polygraph even in the limited fashion suggested. We must,,as
we have in the pas-Vote to exclude the routine use of the
polygraph for access to sensitive compartmented intelligence
information.
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