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Title: A Rejoinder on Polygraph by John F. Sullivan
Post by: George W. Maschke on Mar 26, 2004, 05:04 AM
Retired CIA polygraph examiner John F. Sullivan has rebutted the claim that no spy has ever been identified as a result of polygraph examinations. His "A Rejoinder on Polygraph" has been published as a Federation of American Scientists e-Print and is available here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/sullivan.html
Title: Re: A Rejoinder on Polygraph by John F. Sullivan
Post by: Eastwood on Mar 28, 2004, 06:31 PM
Is this the guy that wrote the book?  I'd take this with a grain of salt.
Title: Re: A Rejoinder on Polygraph by John F. Sullivan
Post by: George W. Maschke on Mar 28, 2004, 07:45 PM
Eastwood,

John Sullivan is the author of Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam (https://antipolygraph.org/forum/index.php?topic=485.msg2350#msg2350) (University of Kansas Press, 2002). I do not see what relevance his authorship of this book has to do with the credibility of the arguments he makes in his FAS e-Print, "A Rejoinder on Polygraph" (http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/sullivan.html).
Title: Re: A Rejoinder on Polygraph by John F. Sullivan
Post by: Guest on Mar 28, 2004, 08:07 PM
Eastwood, can't you see that when Georgie quotes all these people it makes him feel like he is a big boy and a real player like them.  You know kind of important by association.  Otherwise he is just a cry baby loser who has simply flunked his polygraph test and is still pouting about it.