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a * MAY 1962 EDITION OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 5010-106 i GSA GEN. REG, NO, 27 ® © a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT fowls 6 . Asst. Dir.: 7 Admin. __b6 Memorandum ; So ey TO Mr. Serr PBS DATE: August 27, 1973 Aerie \ . ha FROM R. E. Long ine 1 - Mr. Gebhardt sree Ire i 1 ~_ Tyatning a . gal Coun, : ° . Serv. SUBJECTDALE ANDERSON, COUNTY EXECUTIVE 1 - Mr. Jacobson 9/487 sc%. SPIRO T. AGNEW, VICE PRESIDENT Telephone Rm. — BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND a INFORMATION CONCERNING Latte” Director Sec’y __ This is to set forth an analysis of an 8/27/73 article by Bill Richards appearing in "The Washington Post" (attached) captioned "Witness Said to Pass Lie Test." Much of the data in the article has not been available to the Bureau or its personnel and in other instances statements in the article appear to have been made by persons not familiar with FBI terminology and policy. On 8/11 and 12/73 SA J. Robert Pearce of our Philadelphia office, at the request of the Attorney General, Assistant Attorney General Petersen, and U. S. Attorney Beall, Baltimore, appeared in Baltimore and asked Jerome Wolff and Lester Matz a series of questions using the polygraph technique. The following observations are made with respect to various comments appearing in the attached article. l. The article states a key Government witness in the special Federal investigation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew passed an FBI lie detector test. In the use of a polygraph it has been long standing FBI policy that our operators do not make an absolute judgment that a person passed or failed to pass the examination. Our operators must qualify their conclusions to the effect that there was or was no indication of deception on the part of the person afforded the examination. In addition, within the Bureau we refer to it as a polygraph and not a lie detector. 2. ; The article states that the FBI polygraph test showed that Agne Wee ate Jerome Wolff was telling the truth. OSU . ae WARE SA Pearce, who afforded Wolff the polygraph examination, states he asked Wolff a series of questions which enabled Wolff to refresh his recollection as to information not previously furnished - to the Government prosecutors. At this point SA Pearce¥left the DiscowTNve nT ba PaliYGrnhe, Linn, wo Enclosure : ; 59 _ §2) ka ee ~- OVER \ war/ir cae. ee ¢ SSAUGBO 10/2 ie mesoms ull 58-8211 amaerorcen MEET werner 5