REAGAN REQUIRES LIE-DETECTOR TESTS FOR SUSPECTED LEAKERS

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1983
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STAT
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
11 March 1983
STAT
RZA;-N REQUIRES LIE-DETECTOR TESTS FOR SUSPECTED LEAKS
E`_ :DEL J. SNIPFEN
In a sweeping new order, President Reagan is requ 11 I'll Y (1Uf1Lr-LU5 t thousands
of federal employees to sign promises not to leak classified information and
rise: dismissal if they refuse to take lie detector tests in leak investigations.
He also added thousands more high-level federal officials to those already
req red to submit any writings, even after they leave office, to government
review before publication for deletion of any secret material.
Some civil libertarians and liberals attacked the new rules, arguing they
would limit the ability of former top officials to participate in public debate.
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on
civil and constitutional rights, said the new rules had "a ring of
autnoritarianism."
And John Sturdivant, executive vice president of the American Federation of
oov_rri,7~Ent Employees, said the union would have its lawyers examine the order to
"sec w`,:ther it will stand constitutional muster."
Seawan signed a National Security Decision Directive containing the ne rules
rimy, but one government source, who spoke on condition his name not be
use:, said the proposals had been awaiting White House action Since last August.
_cic the signing was prompted by leaks last month of U.S. air and naval
-.enLs aimed at Libya.
'Reacan's order set minimum standards and allows each agency chief to write
- _r -cter rules.
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`y the Justice Dear tment and some f th DfL;; r a n tmert c uld bE
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-r_:r eo for refusing to take polygraph tests during leak inquiries.
niL other federal employees had the r irj11L to refuse without prejudice.
Reagan's order said all employees with access to classified data "may be
reouired to submit to polygraph examinations" or face "appropriate adverse
corisequ_nces."
An administration official, who briefed reporters at the Justice Department
on condition he not be named, said those consequences could range from a note in
the employee's file to dismissal.
The order also requires all federal employees with access to classified
information to sign a non-disclosure agreement enforceable in court before
Steven Garfinkel, director of the Information Security Oversight Office, said
hundreds of thousands of government employees in 60 agencies, including all
Cabinet departments, have secrecy clearances that give them potential access to
classified information. All would be covered by the new order.
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