VERIFICATION PUSH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130052-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: December 13, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Verification Push
Polygraph Flap
AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY
13 DECEMBER 1982
The Reagan Administration plans to go beyond national technical means of verifica-
tion, a euphemism for electronic intelligence, reconnaissance and early warning space-
craft, in verification of an arms reduction agreement, if one can be negotiated with the
USSR in Geneva. The U. S. has continually raised in the Standing Consultative
Commission (SCC) meeting with the Soviet Union encryption violations by the USSR
of telemetry data associated with ballistic missile tests. The Soviets have been partially
encrypting the data, making it difficult for the U. S. to determine the number of
reentry vehicles on a missile, accuracy and missile type. The Soviet position is and has
continued to be that the portion of telemetry data not encrypted is sufficient for U. S.
verification of compliance with existing arms control agreements. Partial encryption
took place again Oct. 26, when a new light-to-medium solid-propellant intercontinental
ballistic missile launched from Plesetsk suffered a first-stage failure. Some U. S. officials
believe the new missile is a fifth-generation follow-on to the Soviet SS- 17 or SS- 19, and
it may be a mobile booster designed to replace the SS-16.
New policy regarding the use of be detector tests in the Pentagon does not indicate a
desire to clamp down on leakers, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy retired
Gen. Richard G. Stilwell told the House last week. Controversy over the proposed
change to Defense Dept. use of polygraph machines has caused publication of the
regulation in the Federal Register to be delayed. The purpose of the changes is to give
greater assurance that Defense employees are not spying for a hostile government,
Stilwell said. First, the policy would allow use of lie detectors for classified programs
and materials. Secondly, it would require such tests for military personnel assigned to
the National Security Agency and employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency in
critical intelligence positions. Employees with special clearances should be subject to
counterintelligence lie detector tests in order to keep their clearances, he said. Finally,
lie detector tests should be available for use of temporary employees needing special
access for a short period of time. Defense Dept. general counsel William H. Taft said
lie detectors will be an investigative tool, not an evidence gathering machine.
-Washington Staff
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