{"id":4331,"date":"2005-05-17T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:32:57","slug":"taiwan-all-intelligence-officials-soon-to-face-lie-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/taiwan-all-intelligence-officials-soon-to-face-lie-detectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan: &#8220;All Intelligence Officials Soon to Face Lie Detectors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Rich Chang <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051223070656\/http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2005\/05\/17\/2003255139\">reports<\/a> for the <em>Taipei Times.<\/em> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>All intelligence officials will be subjected to polygraph tests in future in a bid to root out spies, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced yesterday.<\/p><p>Legislators said they support the ministry&#8217;s policy, but that they hoped the ministry would take human rights into consideration when implementing the tests.<\/p><p>&#8220;Officials of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the military&#8217;s electronic information department, the ministry&#8217;s security unit and the National Security Bureau will randomly undergo psychological and polygraph tests on a regular basis,&#8221; Deputy Minister of National Defense Michael Tsai (\u8521\u660e\u61b2) told legislators yesterday.<\/p><p>In the most recent case of espionage, Major Chuang Poh-hsing (\u838a\u4f2f\u6b23), a former official in the ministry&#8217;s electronic information department, had on six occasions downloaded secrets form the ministry&#8217;s computers and passed them on to China, Tsai said.<\/p><p>&#8220;I would like to apologize for the espionage on behalf of the ministry,&#8221; Tsai said.<\/p><p>Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Shuai Hua-min (\u5e25\u5316\u6c11), a former head of the National Defense Management College, said he supports the polygraph policy, but that the ministry should conduct the tests properly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Shuai is apparently unaware that even a &#8220;properly&#8221; conducted polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; is <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/articles\/article-018.shtml\">without scientific basis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Chang reports for the Taipei Times. Excerpt: All intelligence officials will be subjected to polygraph tests in future in a bid to root out spies, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced yesterday. Legislators said they support the ministry&#8217;s policy, but that they hoped the ministry would take human rights into consideration when implementing &#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":[29,70,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-4331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-counterintelligence","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-taiwan","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","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=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}