From Norman Whaland
Another disadvantage of the polygraph
(Opinion, 19 June, p 52) is that it can
lead to complacency. For example, the CIA, which has used the polygraph
routinely for many years, has placed far too much trust in it.
More than a hundred people had access to the identities of all the American
agents in the Soviet Union. One of those hundred was, of course, Aldrich Ames,
who passed a polygraph test after he became a Soviet agent.
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