The report adds to evidence that President John F. Kennedy's administration played a role in Nelson Mandela's arrest at a time when U.S. officials were coming to grips with an increasingly intense civil rights movement in America.
," and a former editor at TIME — writes about a previously unpublished interview he taped with Mandela in 1993. The interview surfaced as Stengel prepared for a podcast series on Mandela.
Taken together, Stengel says, the details add significantly to the evidence that the CIA was tracking Mandela and helped South African authorities arrest him as he was traveling from Durban to Johannesburg in 1962.The new details largely support In response, the agency said it "can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records."When he was arrested in 1962, Mandela had just returned from a two-month trip across Africa, where he had been raising money for the ANC's military campaign and receiving military training himself.
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