CIA sued for records on possible role in Nelson Mandela arrest
Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 10:06AM 
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student sued the Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday to compel release of its records on Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid activist who died last month at age 95.
Shortly after Mandela’s death, transparency research Ryan Shapiro filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the CIA - as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency - for any records that mentioned Mandela.
Shapiro says the CIA did not respond to his FOIA request, which included an appeal for expedited processing, which was due on Dec. 29. He filed the lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia.
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