"...Analyzing Vladimir Putin's inner demons": The Pentagon’s Secret Putin Diagnosis - Politico: "The release has brought a harsh light to the Office of Net Assessment’s “Body Leads” team and its conclusion diagnosing Putin... It’s unclear what it costs the Office of Net Assessment to fund “Body Leads,” but we know that since 2009, outside experts working with Connors have received at least $365,000." | Pentagon thinktank claims Putin has Asperger's – has Putinology gone too far? - The Guardian
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Do you like watching Internet videos and then drawing broad, sweeping, pseudoscientific conclusions about the people involved? If so, congratulations, you might be qualified to join the Pentagon’s secret team investigating the nonverbal cues of powerful world leaders.
Yesterday, following Freedom of Information Act requests by a group of news organizations includingPolitico, the Pentagon released two studies, both published here in full for the first time, analyzing Vladimir Putin's inner demons—or at least those inner demons that you can observe from watching a ton of publicly available videos. The release has brought a harsh light to the Office of Net Assessment’s “Body Leads” team and its conclusion diagnosing Putin, the Russian president who likes to take shirtless horseback rides, bunga bunga with his bestie Silvio Berlusconi and invade his neighbors, with autism. Or, actually, according to the report, he probably has autism—they’d need a brain scan to confirm. And that’s harder to do when you’re just watching someone on TV.
“Body Leads” is apparently a Department of Defense-funded project dedicated to writing studies that no one ever reads (at least not until this week) about the “nonverbal communication” (aka movement) of world leaders. Its first study about Putin, “A Technical Report on the Nature of Movement Patterning, the Brain and Decision Making (with gratitude to Vladimir Putin, The President of Russia For helping us understand ……),” was published in 2008 and prepared by “Body Leads” leader Brenda Connors, an expert in “movement patterns analysis” at the Naval War College.
Analysis of Internet videos, Connors writes, “clearly reveals 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.” (As of 2013, Asperger’s syndrome is no longer considered a legitimate diagnosis but rather part of the autism spectrum.)
The autocrat’s “primary form of compensation,” Connors concludes, “is extreme control.” Those who work with him are encouraged to present “an exhaustive fact sheet” when they outline geopolitical recommendations. Because “unsubstantiated recommendations may be lost in his perceptual system that simply has trouble taking in information differently.”
We also learn that Putin did not crawl as a child (have you noticed how he has trouble getting off that judo mat?); that, unlike what Time says, he was probably born with his cold stare; and that his “own sense of self is a work in progress.”
The second study, published two years after the “reset” with Russia when Putin was prime minister and his protégé Dmitry Medvedev was president, is called “The Russian Leadership Tandem in Interaction: Insights From Movement Analysis.” In its 40-or-so pages, we learn essentially that Medvedev does not have autism (but “since adolescence, he has exhibited a physical armoring or disunity which inhibits harmonious movement”) and that Putin is kind of a procrastinator. No study has been conducted since Putin returned to the top office, annexed Crimea and sent his tanks rumbling into Ukraine.
It’s unclear what it costs the Office of Net Assessment to fund “Body Leads,” but we know that since 2009, outside experts working with Connors have received at least $365,000.
Just yesterday, one of the “leading neuroscientists” cited in the 2008 study backed off his initial diagnosis. It turns out that Putin’s tendency to get defensive in large social settings—while it has been observed in individuals who have autism—could also be characteristic of, well, people who get defensive in large social settings.
Even the authors have admitted in the past that this is all a work in progress. But thankfully for them, Putin’s “continuing presence on the world stage provides a rich ongoing basis to confirm previous project hypotheses about his behavior.” Do you think they have all they need now?
“Body Leads” repeatedly calls whatever it does “as potent an instrument as an evolving weapon system.” But if these two particular inquiries into the bane of the West and how he gets off the judo mat were so useful, why has no one important ever seen them? According to his spokesperson, Hagel didn’t. Panetta didn’t. And surely Obama didn’t, or he probably would have handed Putin an exhaustive fact sheet and Ukraine would be a lot better off today.
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Elizabeth Ralph is associate editor at Politico Magazine.
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