POLYGRAPH TESTS URGED FOR TOP SECURITY POSTS

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000707220025-8
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July 23, 2010
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October 8, 1981
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/23: CIA-RDP90-00552 ARTICLE APPEARED ON PrGE-LJ. _ 2 8 October 1981 f VJf Test Urged for 'o p :Security Vs Los Angeles Ttmes A government-wide security co mittee has recommended to CIA Di rector William J. - Casey that thou sands of federal officials with speci al ;clearances for .?.dass~ed : material ,`take lie-detector testsz- y The' proposals is.- s . -drawing: sharp ,Objections from career government officials on philosophical and-p ~ical groundsysourcessaid..:] Under the proposal, those holding .he special- or compartmented" se- turity clearances--m distinguished From the usual levels of classified secret and top secret-for work'in a karticularly sensitive area -would We to submit to a polygraph. exam- ination to retain the clearances Some of the special' clearances, often designated by a single letter or iwo, are. so sensitive that they cannot ~e referred to by a person ,holding one-or more of them unless he is certain the person-he-is communi. cating with holds the same clearance. `? Richard K. Willard, counsel for intelligence policy}at,ttfe? Justice De- partment, acknowledged - . that the polygraph proposal, is under consid eration, but said it.was at "a-very reliminary stage," ? He said the io t? t was) ac lanced earlier this year, "but not asj rated from the securi y.rte ~t e 1 which includes officials rceesppoonsib el fpr security at. various government agencies ranging from the ' Justice Department to the National Security Agency and the CIA. The committee reports to Casey. Adoption of the proposal would mark a sharp expansion of reliance on. the polygraph as a clearance de- vice for those -engaged in, security?1 Work, The CIA regularly' uses .the pplygrt for all. of its: employes, wile a FBI does not, Other sources, -who declined: to be " , Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000707220025-8