randomman,

You made the first steps to having the outcome of the polygraph come out in your favor, by reading TLBLD. They are going to have you sign a form saying that you will not use countermeasures during the polygraph. With practice (and I do mean practice, breathing, relaxing, mental exercises) you will beat the machine. But again its practice until the techniques are 2nd nature. Thats the only way they will not tell you are using any type of countermeasures, but I firmly believe they can't detect them anyways, especially if it looks like your normal body rhythm and routine. In my opinion any type of physical countermeasures stand the chance of being detected. The less moving parts the better. I practice the countermeasures every chance I get, day in day out. Now they are 2nd nature and just part of what I do. The other thing to remember is, that with the knowlege of the polygraph and it formats and procedures. The worst outcome possible is only inconclusive. Once you know that the whole process is a load of manure, you relax and can predict the questions and ploys used by the examiner. Which actually becomes quite humorous as you predict what is happening and what is coming. Especially when they come up with no admissions, then they jump to deception on their part to get something. Stick to your SF86 info and don't deviate. As far as your intimate details and sexual exploits, its none of their dam business. Keep it tight, and practice, practice, practice. And under no circumstances ever admit to having been to this website or having polygraph knowlege, the outcome will not be pretty.
Much success to you.  

Regards ...

I am sure the CIA is not interested in your sex life with your wife or significant other.  If you wish to optain that position, I would be honest, honest, honest and disregard the information regarding countermeasures, they will be detected.  Good luck in your quest

Then let me change my opinion, use the countermeasures, it's only your future and your dream job, go for the gusto thanks to Eso, I'm sure you'll get there by lying your butt off.  Just what we need in the  CIA

I specifically said I don't want to lie and I also stated that I will not discuss my sex life in any way with the agency. Is this unreasonable? If they want me, fine. If not, fine too. What is not acceptable is telling irrelevant and private information to a stranger.

Additionally, guarding my privacy is not an ethical issue and I have no erronious beliefs that the agency is some pinnacle of ethics. I plan on being honest on my forms and backing everything I wrote up with an honest poly session. However, I am going to protect myself against a false positive poly result. With the poly folks staking claim to a 10% false positive rate, I would be a fool to place my future with blind faith in a flawed test.

It pains me to observe these discussions of "countermeasures" and "lie detection".  You all shouldn't take your eyes of the brass ring.

The brass ring is that there is no such thing as a lie detector.  There also are no such things as countermeasures to lie detectors because there are no measures to counter!

Polygrapgh is simply an interrogation tool similar to shining a light into the suspects eyes, or claiming that their accomplice has already confessed in order to extract a confession.