A tip from a CIA agent led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa in 1962 that resulted in the late leader spending 27-years behind bars. The revelations, made in the Sunday Times newspaper, are based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard shortly before he died. Shanghai Daily reports: The newspaper cited comments said to have been made by Donald Rickard, a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative, to British film director John Irvin. Irvin’s latest film “Mandela’s Gun,” about the months before the anti-apartheid icon’s arrest, is due to be screened at the Cannes film festival this week. Mandela was freed from prison in 1990 and went on to become South Africa’s president between 1994 and 1999. He died in 2013. An article by James Sanders, who said he was asked by Irvin to investigate the issue, said the director traveled to the US earlier this year and interviewed Rickard. Rickard explained how Mandela was arrested as he traveled between Durban and Johannesburg but did not explain how he had learned where he would be. “I found out when he was coming down and how he was coming … that’s where I was [...]
