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...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...
...pervasive spy scandal was an embarrassment for an Administration that has proclaimed its security consciousness and advocated wider use of lie- detector tests among federal employees to protect secrets at home. Administration officials, and the State Department in particular, displayed a curiously casual attitude toward the vulnerability of its embassies to Communist snooping...
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...
OBLIVIOUS TO the world, I walked into the store with my walkman headphones on. I passed through some sort of metal detector I had been accustomed to seeing only in airports. Unlike the airport checkpoints, this barrier did not have a customs official with a gun standing by, nor was there a sign that said "inappropriate comments about bombs and explosives may result in arrest." (By the way, what is an appropriate comment about bombs or explosives...
Using data from the detector in Japan, HigginsProfessor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow and JohnBahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study atPrinceton reported that the mass of neutrinoscould not be more than 10 electron-volts, a smallfraction of an atom's mass...