There was a psychiatrist that was hired by the US govt in WW2 to analyse Hitler. Despite never having met him, and not being a military man, the psychiatrist (

There was a psychiatrist that was hired by the US govt in WW2 to analyse Hitler. Despite never having met him, and not being a military man, the psychiatrist (I forget his name) predicted Hitler's strategy for the rest of the war - and the eventual suicide, having brought Germany to ruin. So it's not always necessary for an analyst - a good one that is, not an armchair amateur - to have met their subject in order to perform a successful analysis.