{"id":75,"date":"2006-10-19T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2021-02-12T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:30:11","slug":"australian-security-intelligence-organisation-asio-rejects-polygraphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/australian-security-intelligence-organisation-asio-rejects-polygraphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Rejects Polygraphs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In “Lie detectors to be left out of the spy game,”<\/a> Simon Kearney reports for The Australian<\/em> on the decision by that country’s intelligence service to reject polygraph screening:<\/p>\n

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Lie detectors to be left out of the spy game<\/h3>\n

Simon Kearney
October 20, 2006<\/p>\n

AUSTRALIAN spy agencies have abandoned plans to introduce lie-detector tests after a three-year trial found them to be unreliable and likely to cause low morale among intelligence officers.<\/p>\n

Lie-detector tests are routinely used by US agencies such as the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency to weed out traitors.<\/p>\n

ASIO<\/a>‘s annual report reveals staff at the domestic spy agency submitted to polygraph tests on a voluntary basis in a trial carried out between 2000 and 2003.<\/p>\n

ASIO found polygraphs were not compatible with the professional culture in Canberra’s intelligence community and also raised several “technical difficulties” thought to be related to the notorious unreliability of polygraphs.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock<\/a> said that, as a result of the trial’s findings, using polygraph machines to test the integrity of Australian spies was no longer on the agenda.<\/p>\n

“We have no intention of adopting polygraphs,” he said.<\/p>\n

The trial was ordered by former attorney-general Daryl Williams in 2000 after a review of internal security carried out by former inspector-general of intelligence and security Bill Blick recommnded staff be subject to psychological testing.<\/p>\n

Mr Blick reviewed security across Australia’s six intelligence and security agencies after the arrest in Washington of Defence Intelligence Organisation officer Jean-Philippe Wispelaere, who had attempted to sell secret satellite images to Singapore in 1999.<\/p>\n

The recommendations of the ASIO trial – that the tests not become an internal security policy – were put to federal cabinet, which agreed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To discuss this article, see the AntiPolygraph.org message board thread, Aussies Throw Out Polygraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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