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TEST OF TRUTH

The two lie-detector experts who rated the test taken by Paul Fray have nearly 25 years of experience between them.

Jeff Hubanks, who administered the exam in Little Rock on Sunday, has been a licensed examiner in Arkansas for four and a half years. A Pine Bluff, Ark., police officer, Hubanks has given 400 to 500 lie-detector tests.

He supervises polygraphs for the police in criminal cases – specializing in sex offenders and pedophiles – and also has a private practice.

Hubank’s findings that Fray was being truthful were reviewed yesterday by one of the country’s foremost polygraphers, Richard Keifer.

The Post provided Keifer – a former head of the FBI’s polygraph unit – with all of Fray’s physiological responses during test (known as “the charts”) and a nearly three-hour videotape of the exam made by The Post at Keifer’s request.

Keifer, of Apopka, Fla., has conducted more than 1,000 lie-detector tests himself and provided “quality control review” for more than 20,000 other exams.

Keifer, 58, who has conducted polygraphs for 20 years, is chairman of the American Polygraph Association.