GATEKEEPER: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph
Examiner is first, and foremost a history of the CIA’s polygraph
program told from the perspective of a polygraph examiner who spent thirty-one
years in the program. That history includes successes as well as failures,
and both are documented in
GATEKEEPER.
Polygraph examiners play a
significant role in the CIA’s intelligence collection effort; testing assets to
verify their bona fides and the veracity of the information they provide.
GATEKEEPER provides the reader with a very up-close
and personal perspective on this aspect of the polygraph program.
Uncovering double agents
and identifying those who attempt to penetrate the CIA are important missions of
a CIA polygraph examiner. GATEKEEPER addresses
the Ames, Nicholson and Scranage cases; three of the most significant
espionage cases in the annals of American intelligence.
In addition to dealing
with polygraph, GATEKEEPER provides the reader with
thumb-nail sketches of the tenures of the Directors of Central Intelligence
during whose tenure the author served, as well as a rather broad,
all-encompassing perspective on the
CIA.
