2022年7月20日 · The CIA and NSA use a full scope polygraph screening technique called the Relevant/Irrelevant Test. You'll find examples of the kinds of questions asked in this training document produced by the federal polygraph school that trains all federal polygraph operators.

2018年10月4日 · But Polygraph was insistent, and I wasn't sure I could hold them off much longer. I asked about withdrawing my application for DIA clearances, but was advised to watch and wait. Or, I could leave the project now and find other work. My TS/SCI from CIA was still active, but I knew that eventually CIA would want me to take a polygraph.

2012年2月6日 · CIA has turned queer, just like their stupid gay ass polygraph (which I also failed for no reason). Everything in the original post is true. Same questions, same location of the polygraph building, same ruse, same "bad-polygrapher, dumb-polygrapher" routine.

2022年5月7日 · Here's the deal. Many years ago, the polygraph examiners simply asked questions, watched your bio-readings, then marked the answers appropriately based on "proven" metrics. Once one polygraph examiner used interrogation techniques during the polygraph to get folks to "fess up", all examiners started doing it.

2006年5月1日 · The polygraph has emerged as a pivotal tool in the CIA’s aggressive effort to identify suspected leakers after embarrassing disclosures about government anti-terrorism tactics. The agency fired a veteran officer, Mary O. McCarthy, on April 20, alleging that she had shared classified information and operational details with The Washington Post ...

2007年5月27日 · GATEKEEPER: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner. John F. Sullivan. Potomac. 288 pages. $27.95. John Sullivan’s job was ferreting out liars. During a 31-year career as a ”gatekeeper” for the Central Intelligence Agency, he hooked up a record 6,000-plus potential liars to polygraph machines in 40 countries.

2024年3月25日 · Finally, Yoong was supposed to be subjected to a polygraph test as a final proof of loyalty (the CIA flew in their own testers and a machine into Singapore). While he was at the CIA safe house, ISD agents burst in and arrested everyone present. Separately, some nearby CIA officers tried to escape in a getaway car.

2013年4月23日 · DIA officer Ana Belen Montes passed the polygraph at least once while spying for Cuba. And former CIA officer Robert David Steele writes, “Two of my classmates got wrapped up in Cuba (and appeared on international television) because the Cuban double-agents all managed to pass the polygraph.” Make-believe science yields make-believe security.

2022年1月23日 · But the CIA had already become enamored of the polygraph—the agency would also invest embarrassing sums in mediums and clairvoyants who claimed to be able to locate Soviet missile sites by telepathy—and since 1948 had been administering the tests to investigate “major loyalty or security risk matters” in COMINT-cleared personnel.

I arrived at my CIA polygraph promptly, and was dressed appropriately for the occasion. I met my polygrapher, and he did the usual "I'm your new friend, let's get acquainted" song and dance. I had already "passed" a CI poly, so the only remaining task to get me the job of my long-term dreams was the lifestyle poly.