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of RW as a weapon was given to the Committee in
Polygraph
Dr. Hardie presented a resume of his investigations
of the use of the polygraph, or the so-called "lie
duteetor", at Oak Ridgee
He advised the Comuittec: that
it) has been used for pre-employment servening as an
adjunct to security considerations in a portion of the
sensitive operations et Oak Ridge.
the Committce that a further
It was the view of
study should be mede to
evaluate the full capabilities and limitations of the
instrument before considering Commission-wide usce
Budget -
1552,1993
Dre Warren ond Drs Bugher reviewed the budgcts for the
Division of Biology and Medicine for the fiscal ycars
1952 and 1953.
In this connection, there ensued
considerable discussion over a tentative item for
104,000 placed in the 1953 bucget for preliminary
erchitectvral and design studics for « wing to the
permanent medical center at UCLA.
Dre Bugher stated
that it was proposed that the wing would ccst spproxi-
mately $1,900,000 end it was to be used to house the
sEC research project.
The question was then presented
of whether or not the Commission, <
to engage in large-scale construction ct the sitcs of
university contractors,
It was the sense of the
Committee that the AEC should not construct buildings