{"id":98,"date":"2006-12-13T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2021-02-13T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T12:31:25","slug":"us-army-polygraph-coaching-is-a-commonly-reported-questionable-intelligence-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/us-army-polygraph-coaching-is-a-commonly-reported-questionable-intelligence-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army: Polygraph Coaching Is a &#8220;Commonly Reported Questionable Intelligence Activity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n<p>The Federation of American Scientists has obtained a copy of U.S. Army Regulation 381-10 (U.S. Army Intelligence Activities) dated 22 November 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act. Included in a list of &#8220;Commonly Reported Questionable Intelligence Activities&#8221; at section 15-4, para. d.3, is the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Coaching a source or subject of an investigation prior to an intelligence polygraph examination in an effort to help the individual pass the polygraph.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps such coaching is commonplace because U.S. Army intelligence personnel increasingly understand that polygraph testing is a pseudoscientific sham, and that continued reliance on it is detrimental to national security. Indeed, it is polygraphy itself that should be considered a &#8220;questionable intelligence activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Army Regulation 381-10, see <a title=\"Army Defines Legitimate and Questionable Intel Activities\" href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/blogs\/secrecy\/2006\/12\/army_defines_legitimate_and_qu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Army Defines Legitimate and Questionable Intel Activities<\/a> on the Secrecy News blog. For information on how to pass the polygraph, see AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s free e-book, <em><a title=\"The Lie Behind the Lie Detector\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/pubs.shtml\">The Lie Behind the Lie Detector<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of American Scientists has obtained a copy of U.S. Army Regulation 381-10 (U.S. Army Intelligence Activities) dated 22 November 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act. Included in a list of &#8220;Commonly Reported Questionable Intelligence Activities&#8221; at section 15-4, para. d.3, is the following: Coaching a source or subject of an investigation prior &#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":[252,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-98","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-army","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}