Hawk Fuller looks into how to fool a polygraph test. In the show White Collar Matt Bomer's character Neal Caffrey who is a con man cheats a polygraph several times.
During his polygraph test Hawk is asked about a number of bars. The first is The Chicken Hut, a real bar that was located at 1720 H St. NW. The second is The Cozy Corner "in mid city," also a real bar, which is near Howard University, an HBCU.
The paper that Hawk pulls out on "The Use of Polygraphic Tecniques . . . " by Hudson Jost, Ph. D. is a real paper, published in 1953.