headquarters in Langley, Va.Halfway through a briefing on the two men, Mr. Carter interrupted. He needed, he said, to be “steeped in the personalities of Begin and Sadat.”Stansfield Turner, the agency’s director, had just the answer: Dr. Jerrold M. Post, a C.I.A. analyst and the founder of its Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior. Dr. Post quickly turned around a pair of detailed “psychobiographies,” along with a report predicting how these two strong personalities would interact. The key to Begin, he concluded, was his obsession with preventing another Holocaust; Sadat, he said, wanted to outdo his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2020 23:37 UTC