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Posted by George W. Maschke
 - Feb 22, 2026, 06:15 AM
A personal statement posted here on AntiPolygraph.org in 2018 yesterday made it to the front page of the popular Hacker News website, where it generated considerable discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102975

I found this comment by user snickerbockers particularly interesting, as I'm mentioned in it:

QuoteOh boy, something on the HN front page i have direct personal experience with (CIA polygraph exams in general not this specific one).
>Then she asked if I'd read about polygraphs. I said I'd just finished A Tremor in the Blood. She claimed she'd never heard of it. I was surprised. It's an important book about her field, I would have thought all polygraphers knew of it.

They'll also ask you about antipolygraph.org which is the site OP is hosted on. CIA is well aware that it is one of the top search results for polygraph. My examiner actually had the whole expanded universe backstory behind the site memorized and went on a rant about george maschke, the site's owner who lost his job at a major defense contractor then ran away to some place in scandanavia from which they are unable to extradite him.

BTW by reading this comment you may have already failed your polygraph exam at the CIA.

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