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CIA man admits: we sent ‘dangerous’ Mandela to jail

Jefferson Morley May 16, 2016

This story has long generated official CIA denials that sounded flimsy. With this story from The Times & The Sunday Times in London, those denials are now defunct. The CIA betrayed the leader of South African independence to the apartheid regime in 1962.
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Did JFK try to rein in the CIA after Mandela’s arrest?

Jefferson Morley December 9, 2013

Mandela at JFK library — Nelson Mandela with members of the Kennedy family at the JFK Library in 1990.

In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s passing, the story that the CIA played a role in his arrest in August 1962 has made news from Washington to London to Moscow.

I wonder what President Kennedy thought? …

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