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Title: are you asked to remove your shoes/keep mouth open
Post by: collider on Mar 05, 2006, 02:01 PM
during an FBI or CIA poly? do they take any other precautions against physical CMs?
Title: Re: are you asked to remove your shoes/keep mouth
Post by: George W. Maschke on Mar 05, 2006, 02:17 PM
Generally, applicants are allowed to keep their shoes on. However, federal polygraph examiners often use a seat pad that may detect changes in pressure that might be associated with such a countermeasure as pressing one's toes to the floor, or pressing a toe against a tack in the shoe or sock.

Thus far, I've only heard one report of a polygrapher instructing an examinee to keep his mouth open during the in-test phase. It was a CIA polygrapher conducting a pre-employment polygraph. See the discussion thread, CIA Polygraph Counter-Countermeasures (https://antipolygraph.org/forum/index.php?topic=2866.msg20109#msg20109).