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Polygraph and CVSA Forums => Polygraph Policy => Topic started by: poly_question on Nov 16, 2001, 01:57 AM

Title: DEA,SS,CIA -Year of 1st use of poly?
Post by: poly_question on Nov 16, 2001, 01:57 AM
Can anyone fill in the first year that the poly was used for the following Special Agent positions:

DEA:
USSS:
CIA:

I know the following were the first years that the poly was used by the FBI and ATF for Special Agent positions:

FBI- 1994
ATF- 2001

Thanks.
Title: Re: DEA,SS,CIA -Year of 1st use of poly?
Post by: George W. Maschke on Nov 16, 2001, 04:03 AM
If I'm not mistaken, CIA officers are not "special agents" in the sense that federal law enforcement officers are. While I'm not sure when polygraph screening became a general requirement for CIA employees, the CIA polygraph program was set up in 1948 by Cleve Backster (http://www.backster.net) (who didn't stay long).
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