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A former Soviet agent says he has found evidence that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong, among others, by analyzing excrement to construct psychological portraits. According to Russian newspaper reports, in the 1940s Stalin's secret police had set up a special department to get its hands on people's feces to analyse samples of foreign leaders' stools. "For example, if they detected high levels of amino acid Tryptophan, they concluded that person was calm and approachable.'in December 1949, Soviet spies used this system to evaluate the Chinese leader Mao Zedong who was on a visit to Moscow. They had allegedly installed special toilets for Mao, which were connected not to sewers, but to secret boxes.  Once Mao's stools had been scrutinized and studied, Stalin reportedly poo poo-ed the idea of signing an agreement with him.  

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