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Title: Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph ...
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new
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"I learned more about the workings of the CIA's polygraph program from reading Gatekeeper than I learned during the twenty-seven years I served in the Agency's Directorate of Operations. The polygraph is the CIA's most important tool for validating the intelligence information it collects and for protecting itself from hostile penetration and peddlers of false information. This book provides a wealth of detail about the growth and maturation of the Agency's polygraph program." --Merle Pribbenow, former CIA case officer and translator of Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975
"Only John Sullivan would have written Gatekeeper. He had the experience of the perfect insider, and his conscience did not make him a coward unwilling to tell the bad as well as the good. Having often worked closely with John, I agree with his premise that evaluating polygraph results is much more of an art than a science. Among the examiners I have known, John Sullivan was a Rembrandt." --Charles Gillen, former CIA case officer and author of Saigon Station
"CIA's most experienced polygrapher lifts the shroud surrounding an instrument which plays a pivotal and often greatly misunderstood role in the agency's personal vetting and agent validation systems. Sullivan demystifies many of the misconceptions about this instrument and the role played by its practitioners. Counterintelligence historians will learn much new and useful information as to how the polygraph was employed in the investigations of CIA turncoats Ames, Nicholson, and Scranage." --Brian J. Kelley, retired officer with forty years of counterintelligence experience at CIA and the U.S. Air Force
"The CIA censors have taken the handcuffs off John Sullivan. The whole story is out, warts and all, including Operation Bad Apples." --Sheriff Bob Pickell, Flint, Michigan
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