POLYGRAPH TESTS URGED FOR TOP SECURITY POSTS
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October 8, 1981
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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
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