Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breach of confidentiality. Under the U.S. Court of Appeals order, only Sirica is supposed to hear the tapes initially. Even if Sirica wins authorization to have the tapes examined, the fact remains that the technology of detection is not so far advanced as the technology of deception.* The detector must rely on an oscilloscope, which translates electrical impulses of sound into visual patterns -green wavy lines-on a screen. These patterns are altered by erasures or breaks in a tape. But a skillful masking job does not interrupt the pattern and leaves the impression that no editing has been done...
...month and a half of gentle persuasion. Sometimes the two men would drive off together on the lonely Tennessee and Kentucky roads, talking for hours about every phase of the case. In mid-August, Turnblazer declared that he had something to say and agreed to talk while a lie detector monitored his replies. Told that "the box" showed that his account was incomplete, Turnblazer said. "O.K., here's the whole story...
TIME has learned that yet another piece of evidence against the Vice President has been turned up. Following the visit to Baltimore of the Justice Department's chief criminal prosecutor, Henry E. Petersen, the primary witness against Agnew was given a lie-detector test by FBI polygraph experts. The witness is Jerome Wolff, president of Greiner Environmental Systems Inc. and a former high Agnew aide. He has agreed to testify, in return for limited immunity from prosecution himself, that Agnew has extorted bribes from state and federal contractors. The polygraph showed that Wolff told the truth about personally delivering...
...Under U.S. criminal procedure, no witness can be forced to submit to a lie-detector test. However, both prosecutors and defense attorneys occasionally use them, either for private evaluation or-if both sides in a case agree-for presentation as evidence...
Camiel, city Democratic Party chairman, who accused Rizzo of trying to bribe him in his choice of a Democratic candidate for district attorney. The mayor lied on six of the ten questions, said the lie detector, while Camiel told the truth on all. After the test, Rizzo proclaimed his innocence, reaffirmed his confidence in the polygraph-then demanded a re-evaluation of the results by his own experts. Flattery, it seemed, got Rizzo nowhere with the machine...