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Dr. Terry Thompson is a retired C.I.A. psychologist with the agency’s Office of Security. He spent much his career in the Personnel Security arena developing and improving the vetting modalities used with potential employees for sensitive positions. He did much research in this venue, particularly in the domain of polygraph where he developed an experimental model for cyber polygraph. Prior to his employment with the federal government he was a New York City police officer assigned to the South Bronx. He was also a child care director at a Catholic Charities home for children in NYC. He authored five prior books with the non-fiction Why Espionage Happens, his signature work. That effort explored the fundamental psycho-social motivational factors in espionage committed by the trusted insider. Today, the emphasis on the insider threat, both in the realm of espionage and elsewhere, has been adopted as the screening paradigm by government and industry alike. This book is not a how-to manual, rather it deals with the underlying issues associated with Personnel Security including the basic rationale for security screening itself.