Davie Gilson, Mother Jones: The CIA's Secret Psychological Profiles of Dictators and World Leaders Are Amazing
Psychoanalyzing strongmen, from Castro to Saddam.
Last week, Politico and USA Today reported about a secret 2008 Pentagon study which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin's defining characteristic is…autism. The Office of Net Assessment's Body Leads project asserted that scrutinizing hours of Putin footage revealed "that the Russian President carries a neurological abnormality…identified by leading neuroscientists as Asperger's Syndrome, an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions."
Putin's spokesman dismissed the claim as "stupidity not worthy of comment." But it was far from the first time the intelligence community has tried to diagnose foreign leaders from afar on behalf of American politicians and diplomats. The CIA has a long history of crafting psychological and political profiles of international figures, with varying degrees of depth and accuracy. A sampling of these attempts to get inside the heads of heads of state:
WNU Editor: Forget about the CIA's analysis of the world's leaders and dictators .... I would love to know what do the world's intelligence agencies think of President Obama .... and what are their psych profiles of him.
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