-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- CIA Says Lawyer Failed Polygraph Tests About Israel Was Allegedly Asked If He Gave Away U.S. Secrets Feb. 7, 2000 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A lawyer who claims he was fired by the CIA because of anti-Semitism says he may sue the spy agency. In a television interview, Adam Ciralsky said it was "a matter of principle." However, a CIA memo says Ciralsky failed a pair of lie-detector tests about whether he gave or sold U.S. secrets "to an Israeli national." Clearance revoked Ciralsky, 28, of Milwaukee, joined the spy agency in December 1996 as a contract employee in the Office of General Counsel. By the following October, he'd been placed on unpaid leave. His top-secret security clearance was revoked in July 1998, and he was fired in late 1999. Ciralsky aired his complaints against the agency Sunday night on CBS' 60 Minutes. "The idea that I'm guilty of a lack of candor is ludicrous," he said. But a network interviewer said Ciralsky acknowledged off camera that in a series of polygraphs and interrogations he often challenged the questions and quibbled about legalities. Possible ties to Israeli intelligence The agency said it acted against Ciralsky because he did not fully reveal a relationship with two people holding dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, both employees of Israeli defense firms with possible ties to Israeli intelligence. Bill Harlow, CIA public affairs director, disputed Ciralsky's allegations of anti-Semitism. He said the allegations had been reviewed by the agency's inspector general, by several congressional panels and by a citizens' review group. The memorandum about Ciralsky's case, first reported Sunday by The Washington Post, was written by Alan Wade, the CIA's associate deputy director for security. Compromising secret info? The memo said Ciralsky failed two polygraph examinations. The questions he was asked, Wade wrote, were about "deliberately compromising U.S. government classified information to an Israeli national, accepting compensation from an Israeli national in exchange for U.S. government classified information, and deliberately concealing from the U.S. government a relationship with an Israeli national." The CIA's Harlow refused to discuss the memo Sunday. He said the agency had been willing to publicly discuss details of Ciralsky's case, but that his lawyers had blocked them from doing so by invoking the Privacy Act. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
