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How is the polygraph currently used by federal agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, NRO, DoD, DOE, DEA, BATFE, and U.S. Secret Service, as well as state and local agencies? What laws, regulations, and guidelines govern the use of polygraphs for screening, criminal investigations, administrative investigations, and other purposes?
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Cleve Backster, CIA Polygraphs, and Psychic Plants
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Grover Cleveland Backster, Jr.

Cleve Backster, who instituted the Central Intelligence Agency's polygraph program in 1948, also has some curious ideas about plants (in particular, that they can p...

Started Feb 9th, 2002 at 9:08pm by George W. Maschke
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NCCA Polygraph Countermeasure Files
In September, we mentioned that "(t)his fall, AntiPolygraph.org will be publishing National Center for Credibility Assessment (NCCA) documentation on polygraph countermeasures that has been made avail...

Started Dec 3rd, 2017 at 7:42pm by George W. Maschke
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CBP Countermeasure Case Files
Shortly before the trial of Doug Williams for teaching two undercover federal agents how to pass polygraph tests began, AntiPolygraph.org published an archive of 65 so-called "confirmed countermeasure...

Started Jun 13th, 2015 at 7:37am by George W. Maschke
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DIA Countermeasure Case Files
As noted on the blog, AntiPolygraph.org has obtained and published a set of leaked Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) "confirmed countermeasure" case files:
https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2015/...

Started Apr 19th, 2015 at 9:35am by George W. Maschke
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Melissa Boyle Mahle on CIA Polygraph Policy
Retired CIA officer Melissa Boyle Mahle addresses, among other things, the Agency's polygraph policy in her book, Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 (New York:...

Started Jul 24th, 2005 at 9:04am by George W. Maschke
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FBI Polygraph Failure Rate Reportedly Near 50%
In an article titled, "FBI seeks to rebuild its image," Chris Mondics of the Philadelphia Inquirer Washington bureau reports that Roger L. Trott, chief of the FBI's agent training unit, asserts that n...

Started May 23rd, 2002 at 6:05am by George W. Maschke
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Polygraph Place Bulletin Board Private Forum
Note: AntiPolygraph.org has prepared a navigable index to the archive posted here. See:
https://antipolygraph.org/articles/article-055.shtml
--AntiPolygraph.org Administrator


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Accused Spy Joseph Daniel Schmidt May Have Revealed Information About Polygraph Practices
Joseph Daniel Schmidt, a former U.S. army interrogator and Chinese linguist assigned to the 109th Military Intelligence Battalion at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State, has been indicted for...

Started Oct 7th, 2023 at 10:44am by George W. Maschke
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Polygraphs
As noted on the blog, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has reportedly issued instructions that DHS polygraph examinations "must include a question about unauthorized communication...

Started Feb 20th, 2025 at 10:04am by George W. Maschke
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University of the West of England Bristol - Polygraph Research Study Survey
Someone on Reddit claiming to be a student at the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE) is conducting a polygraph research study.  Here is the link to the survey:
https://www.reddit....

Started Mar 5th, 2025 at 12:55pm by not with UWE (Guest)
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Chicago Police Department Applicant Admits Staging a Robbery on Pre-Polygraph Questionnaire
In a case that demonstrates how an invalid procedure (polygraph screening) can nonetheless have some utility, a Chicago Police Department applicant named Antonio Tolar admitted on a pre-polygraph ques...

Started Feb 28th, 2025 at 7:51am by George W. Maschke
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Does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the same questions as CBP?
Does ICE use the same questions and directed lie style as CBP on the poly for Deportation Officers? Since they fall under DHS.

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Accused Spy Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins: Yet Another Catastrophic Failure of Polygraph Screening
Just a week after the arrest of accused Chinese spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma in Honolulu, a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer and INSCOM and DIA contractor, Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, has bee...

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Possible Polygraph Dragnet in Investigation of Leak of Classified Documents on Israeli Preparations to Attack Iran
CNN reports on the leak of classified U.S. documents on Israel's preparations for an attack on Iran. Excerpt:
Quote:
[url]https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/19/politics/us-israel-iran-intelligence-documents...

While CNN "is not quoting directly from or showing the docu

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How Did CIA Officer and Serial Sexual Abuser Brian Jeffrey Raymond Get Away With His Crimes for So Long?
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Brian Jeffrey Raymond

On Friday, 23 July 2021, Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who, as previously reported on the blog, was until last year all but certainly a career CIA intelligence officer, pleaded guilty to two c...

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Korbein Schultz - TS/SCI-Cleared Army Sgt. Pleads Guilty to Espionage - Passed Poly?
Did Korbein Schultz pass a poly?  He had a TS/SCI clearance and was selling secrets to China.  He was convicted yesterday.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-army-soldier-pleads-guilty-all-charges...

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Justin St. Germain's experience with the pre-employment polygraph
This may have already been posted in Personal Statements.
Justin St. Germain posted his experience with the CBP pre-employment polygraph.
https://lithub.com/what-the-all-american-delusion-of...

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Ex FBI Agent Convicted of Child Sex Crimes
And we have another federal poly-passing criminal!   Former FBI Agent Christopher Michael Bauer’s was arrested in 2021 on charges of incest with a minor, sodomy in the first-degree and sexual abuse of...

Started Jun 24th, 2024 at 1:17pm by PolyCritic (Guest)
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Accused Spy Alexander Yuk Ching Ma: Yet Another Catastrophic Failure of Polygraph Screening
The polygraph has failed yet again. As mentioned on the blog, former CIA and FBI employee Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu necessarily passed an FBI pre-employment polygraph screening "test" when, a...

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Former CIA Intel Cover Officer Andrew Bustamante Discusses the Recruitment Process
Former CIA Intel Cover Officer Andrew Bustamante  Discusses the Recruitment Process
Do you agree with his assessment of the poly? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_tNYGWYPeM&t=390s

Started May 9th, 2024 at 2:58pm by Whoa (Guest)
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