"CIA's Secret Psychological Profiles of Dictators..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Feb 2015 11:00 p.m. PST |
… and World Leaders Are Amazing. "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:…"
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| Jcfrog | 16 Feb 2015 1:52 p.m. PST |
Do they do it for those they install, before or afterwards? |
| mandt2 | 16 Feb 2015 9:49 p.m. PST |
Ha, ha. Good question JC. I half believe that the CIA would find working with sociopaths much easier than they would a leader who simply loved his country. |
| Lion in the Stars | 17 Feb 2015 11:37 a.m. PST |
You're probably going to find that the overwhelming majority of politicians are narcissistic sociopaths. |
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