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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"One of Our Greatest Coups": The CIA & the Capture of Nelson Mandela
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_theAs South Africa prepares to hold a state funeral for Nelson Mandela, we look at how the CIA helped the South African government track down and capture Mandela in 1962. In 1990, the Cox News Service quoted a former U.S. official saying that within hours after Mandelas arrest a senior CIA operative named Paul Eckel admitted the agencys involvement. Eckel was reported as having told the official, "We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups." Several news outlets have reported the actual source of the tip that led to the arrest of Mandela was a CIA official named Donald Rickard. On Thursday, Democracy Now! attempted to reach Rickard at his home in Colorado. On two occasions, a man who picked up the phone hung up when we asked to speak with Donald Rickard. The activist group RootsAction has launched a campaign to urge the CIA to open its files on Mandela and South Africa and the media watchdog group Fairness in Accuracy in Reporting has questioned why corporate media outlets have largely ignored the story. We speak to journalist Andrew Cockburn who first reported on the CIA link to Mandelas arrest in 1986 in the New York Times.
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"One of Our Greatest Coups": The CIA & the Capture of Nelson Mandela (Original Post)
Coyotl
Dec 2013
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tblue
(16,350 posts)1. JFK was POTUS
This was during the height of the Cold War too. I know he did not exactly get along with the CIA brass, so who knows if JFK called for this? Creeps me out though. Man, the CIA has a frightful history that continues to this day. Who do they serve, really?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. JFK of reality is not the JFK one hears about most often.
This is the guy responsible for the Bay of Pigs, and who began our ramp up in Vietnam.
shotten99
(622 posts)3. It wasn't until Carter & Reagan's oversight acts
that this type of stuff stopped happening (as often at least).
I'm still surprised about Reagan's intelligence oversight acts. I guess even that broken clock was right twice a day.