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Dec082013
A CIA agent fingered Mandela for the apartheid regime’s secret police
Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 11:01AM
NEWSWEEK
One of the great things about the late great Nelson Mandela is that he didn’t hold grudges.
How else could he have accepted normal relations with the CIA, which tipped off the white-supremacy regime to his whereabouts in 1962?
According to a 1990 Johannesburg Sunday Times newspaper account, a CIA agent by the name of Millard Shirley fingered Mandela for the apartheid regime’s secret police, allowing them to throw up a roadblock and capture him.
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