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May 16th, 2016 
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A tip from a CIA agent led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa in 1962 that resulted in the late leader spending 27-years behind bars.
The revelations, made in the Sunday Times newspaper, are based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard shortly before he died.
Shanghai Daily reports:
The newspaper cited comments said to have been made by Donald Rickard, a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative, to British film director John Irvin.
Irvin’s latest film “Mandela’s Gun,” about the months before the anti-apartheid icon’s arrest, is due to be screened at the Cannes film festival this week.
Mandela was freed from prison in 1990 and went on to become South Africa’s president between 1994 and 1999. He died in 2013.
An article by James Sanders, who said he was asked by Irvin to investigate the issue, said the director traveled to the US earlier this year and interviewed Rickard.
Rickard explained how Mandela was arrested as he traveled between Durban and Johannesburg but did not explain how he had learned where he would be.
“I found out when he was coming down and how he was coming … that’s where I was involved and that’s where Mandela was caught,” Rickard was quoted as saying.
He added that Mandela was “completely under the control of the Soviet Union.”
“He could have incited a war in South Africa, the United States would have to get involved, grudgingly, and things could have gone to hell,” Rickard added.
“We were teetering on the brink here and it had to be stopped, which meant Mandela had to be stopped. And I put a stop to it.”
Zizi Kodwa, national spokesman of Mandela’s ruling African National Congress party, called the revelation “a serious indictment” but said it was nothing new.
“We always knew there was always collaboration between some Western countries and the apartheid regime,” he said.
He claimed that though the incident happened decades ago, the CIA was still interfering in South African politics.
“We have recently observed that there are efforts to undermine the democratically elected ANC government,” he said. “They never stopped operating here. It is still happening now — the CIA is still collaborating with those who want regime change.”
Rickard, who was said to have been employed by the CIA until 1978, died in March, two weeks after talking to Irvin.
Source Article from http://yournewswire.com/cia-played-a-role-in-nelson-mandelas-1962-arrest-report/
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