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3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by dhardline(m): 1:33pm On Dec 11, 2018
News has been awash all over the local and international media about the president of Nigeria Mohammed Buhari having a body double/clone and the revelations are quite compelling to say the least but since nobody within his inner circle has agreed to that effect in any degree it will still just remain an assumption till maybe more concrete proof emerges.

Till then, here are three (3) former world presidents who used body doubles.

1. i) Bernard Montgomery

Soldier M. E. Clifton James successfully impersonated General Bernard Montgomery ("Monty"wink for intelligence purposes during World War II.[5] In 1940, James acted in an Army production called When Knights Were Bold and his photograph appeared in an Army newspaper with a remark about how much he resembled General Montgomery.
As a result, he was approached by actor David Niven in May 1944. Niven, then a Colonel in the Army Kinematograph Section, told James he was wanted to impersonate "Monty", as this would allow Montgomery to be somewhere else, thus confusing the Germans.

James had to learn Montgomery's gestures, mannerisms, gait and voice and had to give up smoking.

Because James had lost his right-hand middle finger in the First World War, a realistic replacement was made.

Even his wife had to be deceived and was both kept in the dark and sent back to Leicester. Once he was trained, his trip as "Monty" was to Gibraltar and from there to Algiers. "Monty's" presence succeeded in confusing the Germans in regard to the invasion plans.

ii) Banwell was captured in a raid on Tobruk, but with a friend managed to steal a German vehicle and escape. During a subsequent raid on Crete he was taken prisoner at Heraklion and put under the personal supervision of former world heavyweight boxing champion Max Schmeling, who was serving in the German Army.

Banwell and a few of his comrades managed to slip away from their captors and then acquired an assault landing craft. With the help of some Cretan fishermen they made their getaway, but the craft ran out of fuel and drifted for nine days before reaching the North African coast. The privations of this voyage put Banwell in hospital for 12 weeks.

When he had recovered, someone noticed that he bore a resemblance to General Montgomery. It was decided that he participate in deception ploys, and so Banwell was sent to Cairo to meet Montgomery, given the appropriate clothing, insignia and General's badges and sent on trips around the Middle East to confuse enemy spies.

However, as he was considerably taller than Montgomery, he was told that on no account should he get out of the car. Banwell, finding the assignment boring, sought a return to the infantry


2. Saddam Hussein (1990s - 2003)

The late Iraqi dictator reportedly employed a roster of body doubles while ruling the Middle Eastern country, according to U.S. Millitary officials.

According to an expert, especially observant Iraqis could tell if they were dealing with the real Hussein by whether or not his bodyguard would ever joke around.

Talk of Hussein’s use of body doubles was so prolific, that when he was captured in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had to address concerns that the U.S. had nabbed a decoy.

“Knowing that his doubles had used plastic surgery and could very well have done duplicate tattoos and bullet holes and various things [like] moles that would make it appear they were Saddam Hussein, the decision was made to have him publicly identified,” Rumsfeld explained in a Pentagon briefing.


3. Joseph Stalin
The leader of the U.S.S.R. was infamous for his mastery of propaganda, so perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that he employed body doubles. One double, known only as “Rashid,” was reportedly dismissed from the army because of his resemblance to Stalin. After he went home, a KGB agent came to recruit “Rashid,” and he would go on to sit-in for the dictator at meetings and banquets. He died in 1991 at age 93.

A little more is known about another of Stalin’s supposed doubles, Felix Dadaev.

As Dadaev tells it, he was injured during the Russian liberation of Grozny in 1942 and Soviet superiors faked his death. He was told that he needed to pass as Stalin — who at the time was nearly 40 years his senior. Had he not impressed the chief of the secret police or Stalin’s personal head of security, Dadaev says he probably would’ve been shot.


Felix Dadaev and Joseph Stalin.

sources; https://www.inverse.com/article/20885-world-leaders-body-doubles-hillary-clinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_decoy
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Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by Omoekun931(m): 1:39pm On Dec 11, 2018
How about Jubrin from Sudan and PMB

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Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by Nobody: 1:41pm On Dec 11, 2018
Expecting one mofo to add one more name.......like the baga abo...e!.

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Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by dhardline(m): 4:43pm On Dec 11, 2018
Lols
Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by celeiyke: 5:01pm On Dec 11, 2018
jubrin and Lifeless

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Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by wirinet(m): 6:26pm On Dec 11, 2018
Lame attempt at justifying Kanu's stupidity. All the examples given were either in times of war or in absolute and repressive dictatorship. Brutal dictatorship regimes requires decoys to fool intending assassins because of extreme unpopularity of the dictator. The body doubles are seldom allowed to get in very close proximity with the public or even public officials. There is no way a body double will be allowed to give press interviews, preside over government meetings, sign official documents and run the government. It's not possible. No two people can look and behave exactly the same. A body double would be exposed instantly in a close up video. The body double the Saudis used to try and deceive the turks into thinking Jamal Kashoggi left the embassy was immediately decoded.
Even the pictures posted of Stalin and his body double is immediately unravelled, as there are stark differences in the facial features of the two pictures.
The Stalin double has a slight double chin, the real Stalin doesn't. The eyes, eye brows, nose, mouth and chin are all slightly different.

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Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by LibertyRep: 6:32pm On Dec 11, 2018
Hillary Clinton is also rumored to have a double

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Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by zlantanfan: 6:32pm On Dec 11, 2018
OK seen, I do hope PDP can start telling Nigerians why they want to return and not how buhari is photocopied
Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by alizma: 6:46pm On Dec 11, 2018
all this lies will not guarantee Atiku's return from US if he dare travel there
Re: 3 World Leaders Who Had Body Doubles. by Nobody: 1:22pm On Mar 02, 2019
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.



Afonjastic go and molest your mother again as usual.



everyone in this forum is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
alizma:
all this lies will not guarantee Atiku's return from US if he dare travel there

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