-Caveat Lector- Saturday March 24 9:05 PM ET Spy Case Prompts Polygraphs for 500 in FBI WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 500 FBI employees with access to intelligence information will be given lie detector tests beginning next week in the first security reform stemming from the arrest of alleged spy Robert Hanssen, the FBI said on Saturday. FBI spokesman John Collingwood said the polygraph tests would be given to systems administrators, people with access to special FBI file rooms and databases, and some 150 senior executives over the next two months. ``In the wake of the Hanssen arrest, we began a top-to-bottom review of our internal security and this is one of the first things we have identified that we can do to enhance security,'' Collingwood said. ``This is intended to be part of our general program of heightened internal security. This is not in response to specific information that there is continuing espionage within the FBI,'' he added. The Washington Post first reported the scheduled tests in its Saturday editions, saying they would also be given to special agents in charge of regional offices and any others with access to sensitive intelligence material. FBI Director Louis Freeh had also ordered reviews of all ''sensitive investigations'' to determine if other agents had accessed information outside their normal duties, the Post said, citing a memo sent to FBI employees last week. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) announced on March 1 that the FBI would expand the use of polygraph tests and would more closely audit access to computers and other information. Ashcroft said that he and Freeh agreed on the interim measures after the February arrest of Hanssen, a 25-year FBI veteran and counter-intelligence expert. Hanssen has been accused of spying for Moscow since 1985 in exchange for $1.4 million in money and diamonds. He allegedly gave Moscow secrets that included names of double agents, and U.S. electronic surveillance methods, revelations that severely damaged national security, U.S. officials said. The FBI in the mid-1990s started giving polygraphs to new hires and agents working on highly sensitive cases. But Hanssen and other longtime agents were never tested. Collingwood said the results of regular investigations of FBI employees with access to classified information, which are carried out every five years, would also be scrutinized more carefully by FBI analysts to find discrepancies and tip-offs about possible spying activities. He said FBI employees were responding positively to the enhanced security measures. ``Most employees realize in the aftermath of the Hanssen arrest that substantial security enhancements are necessary,'' he said. ``We've actually had this under consideration for some time.'' Sec. 107. 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