LIE-DETECTOR TESTS FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707220011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, IN~
ABC World News Tonight STATION WJLA-TV
ABC Network
DATE April 28, 1983 7:00 P.M.
Washington, D.C.
Lie-Detector Tests for Government Employees
STEVE BELL: Congress began hearings today on proposed
Administration regulations that would require lie-detector tests
for government employees who handle classified information.
Justice Department officials say there is just too much leaking.
But many members of Congress worry that the restrictions may be
too broad.
Richard Threlkeld has more on government leaks, a
virtual art form in this city.
RICHARD THRELKELD: Frank Snepp is unemployed. He's an
author who can't write a book or give a speech or teach a class
without first clearing it with a government censor, ever, for the
rest of his life. He used to be with the CIA, and he wrote a
book critical of it without clearing it with the CIA censor, just
in case he'd revealed some secrets. He didn't reveal any, but
the- Supreme Court decided he'd violated his agreement with the
CIA and ordered him to turn over all his book and movie royal-
ties, $180,000, to the government. Now, he says, he feels like
one of those South African dissidents -- banned.
FRANK SNEPP: When someone who cannot speak, talk, get a
job because he's offended the regime, he's called banned. Well,
that's what's happened to me.
THRELKELD: Last month the Reagan Administration started
applying the Snepp rule to tens of thousands of Frank Snepps
still in government, anybody with access to top secrets. They'll
all have to take a pledge not to leak secrets and take a lie-
detector test if they're suspected of it, and let the censors go
over anything they ever write or say about their service.
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