{"id":1038,"date":"2013-07-08T04:13:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T09:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2013-07-08T04:20:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T09:20:19","slug":"cleve-backster-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/cleve-backster-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleve Backster, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cleve-backster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1039\" alt=\"Grover Cleveland Backster, Jr. (1924-2013)\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cleve-backster.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cleve-backster.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cleve-backster-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grover Cleveland Backster, Jr. (1924-2013)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grover Cleveland &#8220;Cleve&#8221; Backster, Jr., a leading figure in the field of polygraphy, died on 1 July 2013 according to the American Association of Police Polygraphists, which has posted an <a title=\"Backster Obituary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.policepolygraph.org\/downloads\/grover-cleveland-obituary.pdf\">obituary<\/a> (PDF). He was 89 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Backster is the reputed founder of the CIA&#8217;s polygraph program and in 1959 founded the oldest private polygraph school still in existence, the <a title=\"Backster School of Lie Detection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backster.net\/\">Backster School of Lie Detection<\/a>. Circa 1960, he developed a numerical approach to scoring polygraph charts that has been widely adopted by the polygraph community as well as the Zone Comparison Technique, variations of which are still commonly used and taught at polygraph schools including the U.S. government&#8217;s National Center for Credibility Assessment.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, Backster gained media attention for his claims, based on measurements made with a polygraph instrument, that <a title=\"Cleve Backster, CIA Polygraphs, and Psychic Plants\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1013288912\">plants can perceive human thoughts and intentions<\/a>. Scientists have been unsuccessful in duplicating Backster&#8217;s results in controlled experiments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grover Cleveland &#8220;Cleve&#8221; Backster, Jr., a leading figure in the field of polygraphy, died on 1 July 2013 according to the American Association of Police Polygraphists, which has posted an obituary (PDF). He was 89 years old. Backster is the reputed founder of the CIA&#8217;s polygraph program and in 1959 founded the oldest private polygraph &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[188],"class_list":{"0":"post-1038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-cleve-backster","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}