Nelson Mandela called ‘mythical’ and a ‘socialist’ by CIA:
The CIA described Nelson Mandela as a 'socialist' with 'mythical' status for South Africans in the mid-1980s and accurately predicted his release would signal the destruction of apartheid The report on Nelson Mandela was written on September 26, 1986, and questions what would happen if the political leader was not incarcerated It suggests that many South African blacks viewed Mandela as a 'president in waiting' in a post-apartheid South Africa Amid worldwide pressure for his release as well as a fear of a racial civil war, President F.W. de Klerk released Mandela in 1990 Four years before his release from prison, and eight years before being elected South Africa's president, Nelson Mandela was called a 'mythical figure' and a 'socialist' by CIA agents who performed research into what would happen if the political figure was not incarcerated.
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