[b]Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-
off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), a report says.
The revelations, made in the Sunday Times newspaper, are
based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard
shortly before he died.
Mr. Mandela served 27 years in jail for resisting white
minority rule before being released in 1990.
He was subsequently elected as South Africa's first black
president.
The interview appears to confirm long-held suspicions that
Mr. Mandela was being trailed by the CIA, says the BBC's
Karen Allen in Johannesburg.
It is expected to put pressure on the CIA to release
documents about its involvement in Mr. Mandela's arrest
and support for the apartheid government, although it has
resisted previous calls for their disclosure.
A fake passport in the name of David Motsamayi used by
Mr. Mandela
Mr. Rickard, who died earlier this year, was never formally
associated with the CIA but worked as a diplomat in South
Africa before retiring in the late 70s.
The interview was conducted by British film director John
Irvin, who has made a film about Mr. Mandela's brief career
as an armed rebel, the Sunday Times said.
The future president led the armed resistance movement of
the banned African National Congress (ANC) and was one
of the most wanted men in South Africa at the time of his
arrest.
Mr. Mandela was considered a dangerous communist and
a threat to the West, our correspondent says, although he
always denied ever being a member of the communist
party.
His ability to evade the security services had earned him
the nickname "the Black Pimpernel".
He was posing as a chauffeur when his car was stopped at
a roadblock by the police in the eastern city of Durban in
1962, and he was detained.
'Embarrassing'
Mr. Mandela, President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999,
was on a US terror watch list until 2008.
Before that, along with other former ANC leaders, he was
only able to visit the US with special permission from the
secretary of state, because the ANC had been designated a
terrorist organisation by the former apartheid government.
[US President George W Bush (R) meets Nelson Mandela in
the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC on 17
May 2005] Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionMr Mandela needed special permission to
enter the US until 2008
The bill scrapping the designation was introduced by
Howard Berman, chairman of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, who promised to "wipe away" the
"indignity."
President Ronald Reagan had originally placed the ANC on
the list in the 1980s.

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What's the motive behind this new buhaha? That Mandela was an armed rebel? They are just in a bid to tanish this man's image but they wont succeed. Instead of them to be grateful that he didn't evacuate those white gays back to their land when he took over power, they are here spewing trash! Baldadash!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A16pheGIFB4

[size=14pt]CIA confirms it helped capture Nelson Mandela [/size]

What has long been suspected, that the American CIA helped the South African authorities at the time, capture Nelson Mandela as we was classed as a terrorist. If this was historical and putting this issue to rest, think again as the ANC make further claims about what is going on today.

Amerika & Israel supported Apartheid & declared Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008. Meanwhile, Nelson Mandela was at the white house on June 25, 1990 to meet with George vampire Bush.

Do you know Y Amerikan leaders who once denounced Mandela later basked in the opportunity to celebrate him?

It is simply because hypocrisy & duplicity are the vaseline of Amerikan political intercourse.