Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela? (2025)

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Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela? (1)

In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested by the South African police. Richard Stengel (stengel) reports on the CIA's involvement

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Stengel is the former Editor of TIME, an MSNBC analyst and the author ofInformation Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation.n Sunday afternoon, August 5th, 1962, Nelson Mandela was in a late-model Austin Westminster coupe making its way from Durban to Johannesburg. It was about a seven-hour drive. Even though Mandela was posing as a chauffeur in a long duster coat, he was sitting in the passenger seat.

That small detail and a host of others that have emerged over time have fueled decades of suspicion that the South African police had been tipped off about Mandela’s whereabouts and that the likeliest source for that information was the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. August 1962 was the height of the Cold War—Mandela’s capture occurred only a few weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis—and the American intelligence community believed that Mandela and the ANC were secret allies of the Soviets.

In 1986, while Mandela was still in prison, when the U.S. Congress was contemplating putting anti-apartheid sanctions on South Africa, the Johannesburg Star printed an un-bylined news story that said, according to a “retired senior police officer,” the South African police had been tipped off to Mandela’s whereabouts by an American diplomat at the U.S. consulate in Durban who was “the CIA operative for that region.

His details are a bit off, but reporting in the South African and American press at the time and afterward claim Rickard was an American undercover intelligence officer in Durban who was later brought back to the U.S. under a cloud for his drunken candor about CIA actions. A 2018 biography of the mercenary Mike Hoare quotes Hoare confirming Rickard’s story. Rickard was personally unrepentant about assisting in Mandela’s capture.

Then, in a longer memo from the CIA in February of 1962, the year of Mandela’s capture, also marked SECRET, the agency pinpoints Mandela as the head of the ANC guerrilla movement and is clearly aware that Mandela was no longer in South Africa. “Mandela, who lived under cover in South Africa and Basutoland after the failure of the general strike he called last May, has left the country…” No period after the word “country,” and the next sentence is blacked out.

The CIA has an office dedicated to responding to FOIA requests. I will spare you the multiple letters back-and-forth. After several months of emails, including several appeals, we eventually got the following reply from the CIA.

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stengel Scümbag terrorist.

stengel Basically, the CIA inspired South Africa to win the Rugby world championship!

stengel Lol, like who didn't they?

stengel Is always the case, why do think Russians are in South Africa today having military exercises with SA military?

stengel 😃

stengel Wasn’t Joe Biden there?

stengel You think there could have been a reason for it?

stengel Nelson Mandela. He was in the opposite direction, against the interests of America, regardless of his work CIA'

stengel The short answer would be yes

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stengel If the CIA was doing bad things then, what is there to stop them from doing bad things now?

stengel Wow, I never knew the CIA was involved in Nelson Mandela's arrest. It's disturbing to think about the extent of their interference in other countries' affairs.

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