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BY TIM JOHNSONtjohnson@krwashington.com WASHINGTON - Even though confessed Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes already outwitted a lie-detector test, the government plans to rely on polygraph exams to check her honesty as they debrief her about her 16-year spying career while working for U.S. military intelligence.Montes took a polygraph examination at least once during her career as an analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, her attorney says.''At the time she was polygraphed, she passed it,'' said prominent Washington attorney Plato Cacheris, who added that he did not know when the exam was given.Critics of polygraph exams, which are designed to snare...

A long-time participant in the AntiPolygraph.org message board has received confirmation from an informed source close to the Ana Belen Montes espionage case that Montes took and passed at least one counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination during her 16-year career at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). See the following message thread and scroll down to the 13th reply: http://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?board=Policy&action=display&num=1001149488According to a document filed in support of her plea agreement, Montes had been recruited by Cuban intelligence even before she began working for the DIA. This indicates that Montes, like CIA spy Aldrich Hazen Ames, beat the polygraph. To learn how anyone can...