Retired Federal Polygraph Operators Awarded $42 Million Federal Contract

The Department of Defense has announced that Capital Center for Credibility Assessment Corporation, a private company run by retired federal polygraphers Patrick J. Roche, Donnie Dutton, and Donald Krapohl, has been awarded a $41,868,715 five-year contract to provide polygraph services for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The DoD announcement, dated 19 May 2025, is reproduced … Read more

“Ex-Sailor Sues Navy Officers Who Labelled Him a Spy”

Los Angeles Times staff writer Eric Lichtblau reports on the case of recently retired Navy petty officer Daniel M. King. Excerpt: King’s supporters say the case raises core questions about the way the military uses polygraphs to detect spies and whether it maintains proper safeguards to protect a service member’s right to defense counsel, a … Read more

“Oversight of the Daniel King Case”

Steven Aftergood of the American Federation of Scientists’ Secrecy in Government Project writes in today’s edition of Secrecy News: OVERSIGHT OF THE DANIEL KING CASE Yesterday the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a closed hearing to consider the case of Daniel M. King, a Navy officer who was accused of espionage, held for 520 … Read more

“Daniel King: The Navy’s Wen Ho Lee?”

Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy writes about the case of Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel King in his electronic newsletter Secrecy News: DANIEL KING: THE NAVY’S WEN HO LEE? The case of US Navy Petty Officer Daniel M. King has emerged as yet another espionage horrorshow and … Read more

“Pentagon Probes Spy Case Dropped Against Sailor”

Washington Post staff writers Vernon Loeb and Walter Pincus report on a planned Department of Defense review of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s investigation of Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel King. Excerpt: The Defense Department inspector general is investigating the Navy’s failed prosecution of Daniel M. King, a chief petty officer who was held for … Read more

“Accused: The Navy’s ‘Spy’ Case”

CBS 60 Minutes II reports on the case of Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel King, who became a suspect after an inconclusive polygraph screening “test.” The Navy claims that King confessed to committing espionage in a post-test interrogation. King maintains that his alleged confession was false and the result of abusive interrogation tactics including … Read more

Espionage Charges Against Navy Petty Officer Daniel King Dropped

In an article entitled, “Tapes were key to freeing accused Elyria man,” Sabrina Eaton and Stephen Koff of the Cleveland Plain Dealer report on an apparent extreme case of polygraph abuse by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service. On 9 March 2001, the U.S. Navy dropped espionage charges against Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel King. … Read more