Word: detector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LaLonde said that when that social worker's report was sent to Essex County District Attorney Kevin Burke, the resulting investigation included a lie-detector test but no prosecution resulted. LaLonde said therefore he should be considered cleared but said he would consider taking another lie detector test...
...doubtful participant this week. An old discard, Danny Driessen, 36, has been cracking doubles in his place. Devoured by a man- eating tarpaulin in 1985, whirlwind Leftfielder Vince Coleman resolves to stay clear of the machinery this year. "I don't go anywhere anymore," he shudders, "without my tarp detector...
...creation. In mid-1981, James ("Bo") Gritz, a retired Green Beret colonel, planned to lead a small group of Americans on a foray into Laos to search for MIAs. Despite warnings, Jerry King insisted on helping him; ISA supplied Gritz with two cameras, plane tickets, parts for a lie detector and, Gritz claimed, $40,000 in cash. The preparations for Gritz's raid are said to have crossed wires with an ultrasecret plan by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to send American military forces into Laos to hunt for MIAs...
...offered to resign on three occasions, none directly related to the Iranian arms deals. The first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan put the resignation in his desk and told Shultz, "Let's talk about it after...
Bickering continued over construction details until a final protocol was signed in 1977. Jimmy Carter's CIA director, Stansfield Turner, wanted the Moscow embassy to be built only by U.S. citizens who would be subject to lie- detector tests upon their return home. Carter approved the idea, says Turner, but the departments of State and Defense blocked the plan. "I gave them money out of the CIA budget for security checks and polygraphs," says he, "and they never properly used it." Turner believes the U.S. has a "cultural problem" with Soviet espionage. "Americans just can't get it through their...