LEAHY ON LIE-DETECTOR TESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303570014-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 10, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
10 November 1985
Leahy on Lie-Detector Tests
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of
Vermont, says he would have "no prob-
lem" with putting key senators and
aides through lie-detector tests to find
out who was disclosing national se-
curity information to the public.
Mr. Leahy, who is the vice chairman
of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
said Friday, in the television interview
program "Evans and Novak," on the
Cable News Network, that he would ac-
cept the idea of taking polygraph, or
lie-detector, tests if they were adminis-
tered broadly and without discrimina-
tion.
Asked whether it would be wrong to
give senators and staff members on the
Intelligence committee lie.detector
tests,wiMr. Leahy said, "I have no prob-
lem with that provided we ought to do
the same thing to all those people in the
Administration who have exactly the
same access."
President Reagan has ordered an in-
vestigation of the disclosure of sensi-
tive information after a report pub-
lished in The Washington Post that be
authorized the Central Intelligence
ency to destabilize the rule of the
Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qad-
dafl.
Mr. Leahy said such disclosures had
gotten out of hand in recent years.
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