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 Nelson Mandela FBI Ffiles - State Department

Nelson Mandela
FBI & State Department Files

344 pages of FBI files containing both FBI and State Department documents, covering the former ANC leader and president of South Africa (1994�1999), Nelson Mandela.

The 344 pages of files primarily date from May 1990 to October 2000. The subject of most of the documents in this release, which were produced by the FBI, concerns the safety of Nelson Mandela during his visits to the United States. The State Department files also mentions Mandela's political and foreign relations activities.

A 1990 FBI Atlanta Field Office memo sent to FBI director William Sessions informs him that the Bureau had obtained a new confidential informant within Mandela's inner-circle. This informant provided Mandela's travel plans for his first visit to the United States, four months after his release from a South African prison.

A memo reports that Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, perused a meeting with Mandela during his first visit to the United States. However, the two men did not meet for the first time until a Farrakhan visit to South Africa in 1996.

The documents record the onslaught of threats made against Mandela and the FBI and State Department's job of keeping Mandela safe during his visits to the United States. Memos show the investigative activity by the FBI to find those who made threats against Mandela.

The files include a threat analysis prepared the State Department's Office of Intelligence and Threat Analysis and shared with the FBI. The memo identified the threat to Mandela's safety as emanating from hate groups and the mentally disturbed.

Later State Department memos received by the FBI after Mandela returned home after his first visit to the Unites States, reports on the ANC leader's health and political activity in South Africa and Europe.