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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
 
Polygraph panic: CIA director fretted his vote for communist
Polygraph panic: CIA director fretted his vote for communist
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John Brennan on Thursday recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?

"I froze," Brennan said during a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual conference. "This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate,"

Brennan was responding to a question about barriers to recruiting diverse candidates for the intelligence fields,
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"I said I was neither Democratic or Republican [...] I said I'm not a member of the Communist Party [...] he soon got his admission notice to the CIA
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html

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