Psychological profile of Paul Martin.
In WWII the fore-runner to the CIA, the OSS, did a psychological profile
of Hitler.
http://www1.us.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/profile-index.html
During the Cold War the CIA and other western intelligence services
tried to build psychological profiles of Soviet leaders, though I have
been unable to
anything public by searching.
http://www.richardwebster.net/historyandhatred.html
And post-Cold War in profiling of Saddam Hussein
http://www.boswellgroup.com/press/nyt050403.html
"In another country, at another time, with a different set of dice,
some psychiatrists say, Mr. Hussein might instead have become a
corporate executive, a lawyer, a cult leader or a politician. His
ambition, paranoia and violence might then have been modulated by
legal codes and tempered by the checks and balances of a free
society."
Jerrold Post spent 20 years specializing in this sub-field.
http://www.inq7.net/opi/2004/may/21/opi_commentary1-1.htm
And his unit produced this profile of Saddam circa 1990
www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/iraq/saddam_post.htm
And here is one by Katy Oh and Ralph Hassig about the DPRK Dear Leader
http://www.nautilus.org/DPRKBriefingBook/negotiating/ProfileofKimJong-il.html
And something from the perspective of analyst Brian Lately
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/mar00/07e1.htm
Something from the academic sphere:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/?ci=0195053281&view=usa
And Paul Martin Pronouncement
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20050225-011/page.asp
Q) If the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political
Behavior (CAPPB) in the Central Intelligence Agency has done a profile
of General Secretary Paul Martin, what would does it say? |