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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.
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