How the CIA got Mandela arrested: Agent provided tip-off that led to Nelson's arrest and 27 YEARS in

[cali]

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 world’s 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.


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[Fast Walker 52]

1. the crimes that were done in the name of fighting communism and socialism are sickening

... 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]

2. Look across the globe

The West has wreaked havoc on humanity in the name of controlling resources and finding cheap labor - we live an inversion of reality.

[uhnope]

3. Daily Fail. A tip off doesn't mean South Africa has to incarcerate him for 27 years

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]

5. You turn over

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..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 government—that would be us—knew 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]

7. The "Daily Mail" is the British equivalent to the "National Enquirer".

[cali]

9. No, actually it's not.

[JDPriestly]

10. We will all get to see. The film Ricketts made, I suppose.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Its many nicknames include the Daily Fail and the Daily Heil for its neo-fascist tendencies.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

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.

[cali]

8. Disgusting.

[uhnope]

14. yr usual detailed argument

[Festivito]

4. Another Conned Idiot Ass. That group of butt-heads needs to go. eom

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Blame Harry Truman. nt

[notemason]

11. To the Mandela family, the people of South Africa

and the oppressed everywhere, I would like to offer my apologies that an American institution participated in this.

[JEB]

12. My workingman's taxes pay for this shit.

"Unrepentant" to the end; the cold war propaganda really stewed his brain.