JFK and the CIA’s Mandela Effect

Former Time magazine editor Richard Stengel writes a detailed essay laying out the considerable evidence that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency tipped off the South African police about the location of Nelson Mandela in 1962, leading to Mandela’s arrest and 27 years in prison.

Stengel, who interviewed Mandela many times, noted that the South African president believed it was possible:

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Jim Geraghty

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Former Time magazine editor Richard Stengel writes a detailed essay laying out the considerable evidence that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency tipped off the South African police about the location of Nelson Mandela in 1962, leading to Mandela’s arrest and 27 years in prison.

Stengel, who interviewed Mandela many times, noted that the South African president believed it was possible: