25 TAKE LIE TESTS AS PENTAGON SEEKS DISCLOSURE SOURCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100040104-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: January 24, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/27: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100040104-2
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ART ARTICLE ail P.E.Pit E21 JANUARY 1982
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After the news reports appeared two privately, that authorized disclosures
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But Inquiry Faits to Determine
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Who Gave Informationon
Spending to the Press'
By RICHARD HALLORM ..
Special m Th. New Yorf r 17m..
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. The De-
fense Deoartment has given lie-detector
tests to about 25 senior officials In an un-
successful effort to find the source of an
unauthorized disclosure of. confidential
information, according to Pentagon offi-
cials.
The-lie-detector, or polygraph, tests
were begun by Deputy Secretary ofDe-
fense Frank C. Carlucci, who took. the
first one himself.. They were given to
Under Secretaries Fred C. - Ikle and
Richard D. Delauer; Secretary of the
Navy John F. Lehman and ;other mill-
tary service secretaries; the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. David
C. Jones; other four-tar generals and
admirals, and several Assistant Secre-
taries of Defense and their aides.
Figure Based on' Wish L1sts'
The tests and other inquiries, how
ever, have not uncovered the official or
officials who gave the press an account
of a policy debate In a higb?Ievel. meet=
ing at the Pentagon earlier this I month:
Officially, - the investigation continues,
but Pentagon officials said they had lit.
tle hope of discovering the source of the
information.. ' "
At a .meeting _of the Defense Re-
sources Board on Jan. 7, according to
-Government'offlciais; Mr..Delauer as-
serted that the United States would have
to spend up to$750-billion more than the
$1,500 billion planned by the Reagan Ad-
ministration to reach Its objective. of
fully rearming the United states.; ;Md s
Secretary of Defense Caspar W.-Wein
bergersaid later that the $750 billion fig-
ure had been `compiled from-- ,'wish
lists''. submitted-by the military: sere
ices. He said tbe-Administration-would.
.
weeks ago, Mr. Carlucci volunteered to were stuu permitte
take aUs-detector test and asked others I* An example of that was the Pentagon
'who had attended the meeting to dopublication of the booklet "Soviet Mili-
same. One official said Mr. Carlucci "is f tary. Power," .a. 99-page.' assessment,
steeped in the ways" of the. Central Ir- complete with pictures and charts, of
telligence Agency, ,,of which. he was the growth of the Soviet armed forces. It
deputy director in the Carter Adm' ' was published after a struggle between.
tration. "Taking polygraphs-over there Mr. Weinberger and the intelligence
community. Mr. Weinberger wanted to
is likehavingbreakfast,"hesaid:. tuse secret information about the Sovie
The lie-detector tests, officials said, Union to help build a consensus for i - n-;
have raised these questions within the creased military spending. Intelligence !
. Pentagon-:..officers balked at releasing classified
9How effective are lie detectors and information.
other investigative methods in finding The result was a compromise in which
the source of a disclosure? If the person previously classified information was ~
who made the disclosure cannot, be ' made public, some of it in exact form,
found, how- good are.-,.other security some in slightly altered form, in an ef-
measures within the Pentagon?_ ` I fort to deceive the Soviet Union as to
9 Will the use or lie detectors to ques- I precisely what American intelligence
tion the principal civilian advisers of the -knows.
Secretary of Defense' and the -nation's , The booklet contained, for instance,
senior military officers cause an erosion I previously secret pictures of the new
of trust among them, or do unauthorized i Alfa submarine, the world's fastest, and
disclosures of information from suppos-
edly free-flowing and confidential dis-
cussions do more to erode that sense of
trust? .
9How serious is the leakage of infor-
mation from the Pentagon and have any
of the'disclosures done real damage to
national security? The various grades of
classified information are based on the
amount of potential damage to national
security
l On the `first. question;: officials ac-
knowledged that the lie detectors had
limited value..Others shrugged off the
,Reagan Administration's campaign to
stop such disclosures. "Leaks. are- the
name of the game around, here," said
one official, asserting that there were no
more than in previous administrat Ions.'
-On the second issue, Pentagon offi-
cials said no one had declined Mr. Car-
lucci's request. to take the lie-detector
test.v'They, argued further. that ' disclo.
sures stemming.-from confidential dis-
cussions would do more=to'erode trust-
'than the He-detector tests, despite the
implication that the word of the officials
-could not betaken at facevalue.
'. As for the third issue, top officials in
the Pentagon have declined to specify
damage done _ to national' . security.
IAsked_whether there really had been-a.
of a Backfire bomber that officials sug-
gested had been taken from a satellite.
An artist's rendering of `the Typhoon
.submarine, the world's largest, was
doctored slightly, as was an artist's ren-
,dering of an SS-20 missile being fired.
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