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prison because he believed the ANC leader was 'a toy of the Soviet Union'
Mandela was arrested in 1962 on his way from Durban to Johannesburg
Rumors have long swirled over how South African police found him
Secret CIA agent Donald Rickard has now claimed he tipped authorities off
Rickard said Mandela was an avowed Communist and 'had to be stopped'
Weeks after giving tell-all account to a filmmaker in March, Rickard died
An unrepentant former CIA agent has told for the first time how he led South African security forces to Nelson Mandela on the day he was arrested back in 1962.
Donald C Rickard, 88, who was officially working as U.S. vice consul in Durban at the time, said he provided the tip-off as part of a Cold War geopolitical power play because Mandela was the worlds most dangerous communist outside of the Soviet Union.
The undercover officer learned Mandela would be travelling from Duban to Johannesburg on August 5 and claims he gave details of Mandela's route to his contacts in the police force, meaning they were able to set up a roadblock, The Sunday Times reports.
Mandela's car was stopped en-route and agents recognized him in the back dressed as a chauffeur and took him into custody.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3591000/How-CIA-got-Nelson-Mandela-arrested-Unrepentant-agent-confirms-tipped-South-African-security-forces-meaning-leader-jailed-27-years.html#ixzz48iprosYi
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Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)... the CIA STILL needs to be broken up and scattered to the wind, and the cold war mindset needs to die. But it still seems to live on in zombie fashion.
malaise
(269,365 posts)The West has wreaked havoc on humanity in the name of controlling resources and finding cheap labor - we live an inversion of reality.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)you probably cannot understand this, but what the horrid South African gov did was mainly the fault & responsibility of the horrid South African gov, and doesn't make the USA automatically the Great Satan. That's true in general: what governments do is--usually--largely their responsibility, their fault, to their credit if it's good...
zentrum
(9,866 posts)Last edited Sun May 15, 2016, 10:39 AM - Edit history (2)
..the leader of Black freedom to white apartheid racists and you know damn well you are consigning him to any fate the white racist can devise. And the CIA guy and his governmentthat would be usknew it. Lock him up for good, torture him, kill him. Who cares? Just get rid of him.
Why did he turn Mandela over if he thought nothing would happen to him? Do you imagine that he thought the apartheid government would just give a stern scolding and set him free? What do you think the tip was for? Lunch? Maybe tea?
We had no business intervening in the fate of SA at all. Except sanctions to end their tyranny. Or how about not selling them arms? Hmmm?
Why didn't we intervene during those 27 years if we're so innocent?
Where the hell does responsibility begin or end in your conveniently myopic world view?
George II
(67,782 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,776 posts)Only the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun is worse now that the hilarious News of the World is gone. In other words, you've nailed it.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Festivito
(13,452 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,145 posts)notemason
(299 posts)and the oppressed everywhere, I would like to offer my apologies that an American institution participated in this.
JEB
(4,748 posts)"Unrepentant" to the end; the cold war propaganda really stewed his brain.