Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'
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 faeces. The ambitious aim: to analyse samples of foreign leaders' stools. In other words, espionage via excrement.
It is former Soviet agent Igor Atamanenko who claims to have uncovered this unusual project, while doing research in the archives of the Russian secret services.
"In those days the Soviets didn't have the kind of listening devices which secret services do today," he told the paper.
"That's why our specialists came up with the most extravagant ways of extracting information about a person."
Mr Atamanenko says it was Stalin's henchman Lavrenti Beria who was put in charge of the secret laboratory. When I contacted Mr Atamanenko, he told me what the Soviet scientists had been looking for in faeces.
"For example, if they detected high levels of amino acid Tryptophan," he explained, "they concluded that person was calm and approachable.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35427926
Wait....WHAT?!?
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analyze it for me.
Stalin went through the line five times, the last four to deny he'd ever been there in the first place. Sounds like a crappy plan. 
