Nelson Mandela’s arrest in 1962 got here as a result of a tip-off from an agent of america relevantIntelligence corporation (CIA), a record says.
The revelations, made in the Sunday times newspaper, are based totally on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard quickly earlier than he died.
Mr Mandela served 27 years in jail for resisting white minority rule before being released in 1990.
He became ultimately elected as South Africa’s first black president.
The interview appears to affirm long-held suspicions that Mr Mandela turned into being trailed by way ofthe CIA, says the BBC’s Karen Allen in Johannesburg.
it is predicted to put stress at the CIA to release documents about its involvement in Mr Mandela’s arrest and assist for the apartheid authorities, although it has resisted preceding requires their disclosure.Mr Rickard, who died in advance this 12 months, turned into never officially associated with the CIAhowever worked as a diplomat in South Africa before retiring in the overdue 70s.
The interview turned into carried out by way of British film director John Irvin, who has made a movieapproximately Mr Mandela’s quick profession as an armed rebel, the Sunday instances said.
The destiny president led the armed resistance movement of the banned African countrywide Congress (ANC), and changed into one of the most desired guys in South Africa at the time of his arrest.
Mr Mandela turned into considered a risky communist and a risk to the West, our correspondent says,despite the fact that he continually denied ever being a member of the communist birthday party.
His potential to keep away from the safety offerings had earned him the nickname “the black Pimpernel”.
He turned into posing as a chauffeur whilst his car changed into stopped at a roadblock through the police within the japanese town of Durban in 1962 and he was detained.
‘Embarrassing’
Mr Mandela, president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, become on a US terror watch listing till 2008.
earlier than that, together with other former ANC leaders, he became best able to go to america withunique permission from the secretary of country, because the ANC have been designated a terroristenterprise by using the previous apartheid authorities.The invoice scrapping the designation wasintroduced by way of Howard Berman, chairman of the house Committee on foreign Affairs, who promised to “wipe away” the “indignity”.
President Ronald Reagan had at the start placed the ANC at the list within the Nineteen Eighties.
