Secrecy News -- 01/08/01

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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:20:00 -0500
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood () igc org>
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Subject: Secrecy News -- 01/08/01

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
January 8, 2001

**      FACT SHEET ON NEW COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRUCTURE
**      NATIONAL ACADEMY BEGINS POLYGRAPH STUDY


FACT SHEET ON NEW COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRUCTURE

The White House has released a fact sheet on its Counterintelligence-21
initiative which sheds a little more light on the new counterintelligence
structure that was established last week.

Upon inspection, CI-21 seems to be something less than a bold new
departure.  While the new Office of the Counterintelligence Executive will
coordinate up and down among the existing counterintelligence enterprises,
"the Office will not have an operational role in CI operations and
investigations and no independent contacts or activities with foreign
intelligence services."

The new White House fact sheet on CI-21, which is a releasable version of
the closely held Presidential Decision Directive, is available here:

         http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/pdd-ci-21.htm

Excerpts on counterintelligence policy from Friday's White House press
briefing may be found here:

         http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2001/01/wh-ci-21.html


NATIONAL ACADEMY BEGINS POLYGRAPH STUDY

The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences is
undertaking a new review of the validity and reliability of the polygraph,
or "lie detector."

The 18 month review, which was proposed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman and funded by
the Department of Energy, will examine the controversial use of polygraph
testing for personnel security screening.  And it "will include what is
known about the effect of medications, sleep deprivation, and  illnesses on
the physiological responses measured."

The first meeting of the study panel has been scheduled for January 26-27
at the National Academy building in Washington, DC.  Most of the meeting
will be open to the public.

Further information, including the names of the proposed panel members, may
be found here:

         http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/Projects+_by+_PIN/BCSS-I-00-01-A?OpenDocument

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Steven Aftergood
Project on Government Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
Email:  saftergood () igc org

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