Russian President Vladimir Putin is probably autistic. A Pentagon think tank believes that Putin suffers from Asperger's symptom.

USA Today cites a 2008 report made by Brenda Connors, a movement pattern analysis expert at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, Rhode Island, and a contractor of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon internal think tank.

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The think tank prepares long-range plans for the Defense Department and helps craft future strategy.

Connors wrote that the Russian president suffered a significant interruption during his infancy in his neurological development. But while the theory is backed by autism specialists, their diagnosis could not be confirmed because that would require scanning the brain of Putin.

Dr. Stephen Porges, a psychiatry professor at the University of North Carolina and cited in the 2008 report, said that foreign governments that deal with Putin must find quieter settings since the president's behavior and facial expressions indicate defensiveness when attending social gatherings with large crowds.

But while he concluded then that Putin had some form of autism, he stopped short of confirming it is Asperger's.

Among the actions of the Russian president is the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and Moscow's support for separatists.

NWC did also an analysis in 2011 of Putin and former President Dimitry Medvedev. The report explains, "His primary form of compensation is extreme control ... reflected in his decision style and how he governs."

Connors had been observing Putin's movements since 1996, and her hypothesis is that early in life, possibly while still in his mother's womb, Putin "suffered a huge hemispheric event to the left temporal lobe of the prefrontal cortex."

That area involves the central and peripheral nervous systems, gross motor functioning on the right side of his head, rib cage, arm and leg, and micro facial expression as well as eye gaze, hearing and voice.

Their study was published in the September 2013 in the Frontiers in Psychology journal.

But Putin is not only suspected of being autistic, a former KGB agent had accused the president of pedophilia. The basis of Alexander Litvinenko's accusation was Putin once kissed in public a young boy in the stomach.

Litvinenko, who made the accusation in 2006 a few months after he was poisoned, said that while Putin was walking from the Big Kremlin Palace to his home, he saw a group of tourists on Kremlin Square.

One of the tourists was the young boy named Nikita whose T-shirt Putin lifted and whom the president kissed on the stomach while he was kneeling.

He said the public was shocked with what the president did. Breitbart.com published a photo of Putin kissing the tyke's stomach.

Litvinenko said that when Putin was still with the Andropov Institute where spies are trained, he had a reputation as a pedophile, which was allegedly the reason why officials didn't accept Putin in foreign intelligence. Litvinenko died in November 2006 of radiation poisoning.

Ironically, Putin is a known homophobic and had passed laws in Russia penalizing gays and lesbians.

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