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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CIA man admits: we sent ‘dangerous’ Mandela to jail
Did JFK try to rein in the CIA after Mandela’s arrest?
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? Read more
