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C.I.A. TIE REPORTED IN MANDELA ARREST
By DAVID JOHNSTON, Special to The New York Times
Published: June 10, 1990
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The Central Intelligence Agency played an important role in the arrest in
1962 of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader who was jailed
for nearly 28 years before his release four months ago, a news report says.
The intelligence service, using an agent inside the African National
Congress, provided South African security officials with precise information
about Mr. Mandela's activities that enabled the police to arrest him, said
the account by the Cox News Service.
The report, scheduled for publication on Sunday, quoted an unidentified
retired official who said that a senior C.I.A. officer told him shortly
after Mr. Mandela's arrest: ''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.''
Mark Mansfield, a spokesman for the agency, declined to comment on the news-
service report. ''As a matter of policy, we do not discuss allegations of
intelligence activities,'' he said.
Protecting Pretoria's Rule
Reports that American intelligence tipped off the South African officials
who arrested Mr. Mandela have circulated for years. Newsweek reported in
February that the agency was believed to have been involved.
Mr. Mandela is scheduled to visit the United States beginning June 20 for a
five-city tour that will include talks with President Bush and a speech
before a joint meeting of Congress.
The news-service report said that at the time of Mr. Mandela's arrest in
August 1962, the C.I.A. devoted more resources to penetrating the activities
of nationalist groups like the African National Congress than did South
Africa's then-fledgling security service.
The account said the American intelligence agency was willing to assist in
the apprehension of Mr. Mandela because it was concerned that a successful
nationalist movement threatened a friendly South African Govenment.
Expansion of such movements outside South Africa's borders, the agency
feared, would jeopardize the stability of other African states, the account
said.
Arrest at a Roadblock
A retired South African intelligence official, Gerard Ludi, was quoted in
the report as saying that at the time of Mr. Mandela's capture, the C.I.A.
had put an undercover agent into the inner circle of the African National
Congress group in Durban.
That agent provided the intelligence service with detailed accounts of the
organization's activities, including information on the whereabouts of Mr.
Mandela, then being sought as a fugitive for his anti-apartheid activities.
The morning after a secret dinner party with other congress members in
Durban, Mr. Mandela, dressed as a chauffeur, ran into a roadblock. He was
immediately recognized and arrested.
The retired official said that because of concern over the propriety of the
C.I.A.'s actions in the Mandela case, ''higher authorities'' required that
the State Department approve any similar operations in the future. The
report said the State Department refused on at least three occasions to
allow the agency to provide South African officials with information about
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: C.I.A. TIE REPORTED IN MANDELA ARREST
: By DAVID JOHNSTON, Special to The New York Times
: Published: June 10, 1990
: Sign In to E-Mail
: Print
: The Central Intelligence Agency played an important role in the arrest in
: 1962 of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader who was jailed
: for nearly 28 years before his release four months ago, a news report says.
: The intelligence service, using an agent inside the African National
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