George Shultz and the Polygraph Test

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Publication Date:
January 01, 1986

Source:
Harvard Kennedy School

On December 19, 1985, Secretary of State George Shultz, stung the administration when he publically threatened to resign. This action was not based on a substantive disagreement over foreign policy. Instead, Shultz was demonstrating his strong opposition to an administration plan to require polygraph tests for all government officials with access to “highly classified information.” Roughly 182,000 government employees were to be affected by this plan, including some 4,500 members of the State Department. From the outset, the Reagan administration had been strongly interested in crushing espionage activities within the U.S. Government due to several recent instances during which breeches in U.S. security occurred. This case provides several examples of times when security was breached and chronicles the Reagan Administration’s plan to squash espionage. It then details the series of actions that followed as Congress debated the issue. HKS Case Number 681.0.

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