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Long rumored, but written off as "conspiracy"... Funny how that works. Regardless, this is yet another black eye for the CIA. So buckle up folks for the release of another shameful chapter of backwards and downright despicable of American intervention gone wrong.

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Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a report says.

The revelations, made in the Sunday Times newspaper, are based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard shortly before he died.

Mr Mandela served 27 years in jail for resisting white minority rule before being released in 1990.

He was subsequently elected as South Africa's first black president.

The interview appears to confirm long-held suspicions that Mr Mandela was being trailed by the CIA, says the BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg.

It is expected to put pressure on the CIA to release documents about its involvement in Mr Mandela's arrest and support for the apartheid government, although it has resisted previous calls for their disclosure.

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36296551

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Long rumored, but written off as "conspiracy"... Funny how that works. Regardless, this is yet another black eye for the CIA. So buckle up folks for the release of another shameful chapter of backwards and downright despicable of American intervention gone wrong.

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Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a report says.

The revelations, made in the Sunday Times newspaper, are based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard shortly before he died.

Mr Mandela served 27 years in jail for resisting white minority rule before being released in 1990.

He was subsequently elected as South Africa's first black president.

The interview appears to confirm long-held suspicions that Mr Mandela was being trailed by the CIA, says the BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg.

It is expected to put pressure on the CIA to release documents about its involvement in Mr Mandela's arrest and support for the apartheid government, although it has resisted previous calls for their disclosure.

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36296551

 

 

Even Mandela wrote it off as a conspiracy. People tend to forget that he was a terrorist, ally of Castro, and involved in the Angolan wars fighting against the US.

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Even Mandela wrote it off as a conspiracy. People tend to forget that he was a terrorist, ally of Castro, and involved in the Angolan wars fighting against the US.

It's not that they forget, it's that it doesn't fit the narrative, so they were never taught it.

 

Mandella was a communist terror supporter durring the Cold War. That's why the CIA tagged him.

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Even Mandela wrote it off as a conspiracy. People tend to forget that he was a terrorist, ally of Castro, and involved in the Angolan wars fighting against the US.

 

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Siding with the most deplorable of regimes in South Africa was good for business though, so yay USA.

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One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Siding with the most deplorable of regimes in South Africa was good for business though, so yay USA.

Stop being obtuse, and stop pretending that 1962 was the same as 1995.

 

Nelson Mandela was a Communist terrorist, who openly supported our enemies during the Cold War.

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One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Siding with the most deplorable of regimes in South Africa was good for business though, so yay USA.

 

Yes, and a terrorist one day is a freedom fighter the next. But let's judge decisions in the context of 50 years after the fact, rather than the contemporary situation.

 

And the US was fighting against South Africa at that point. The Angolan wars were a massive cluster-!@#$. Funny think is how relevant they've been to foreign policy the past six months, too...

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Stop being obtuse, and stop pretending that 1962 was the same as 1995.

 

Nelson Mandela was a Communist terrorist, who openly supported our enemies during the Cold War.

Ya know, for someone that preaches libertarian freedom, you sure seem to be on the wrong side of the issue of freedom when it comes to black folks. First the South and their slave system seems a good cause for you, heck, it was a freedom fight! And now the evil apartheid system is better than a person fighting against it. Interesting

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Ya know, for someone that preaches libertarian freedom, you sure seem to be on the wrong side of the issue of freedom when it comes to black folks. First the South and their slave system seems a good cause for you, heck, it was a freedom fight! And now the evil apartheid system is better than a person fighting against it. Interesting

He didn't even mention apartheid, idiot.

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Ya know, for someone that preaches libertarian freedom, you sure seem to be on the wrong side of the issue of freedom when it comes to black folks. First the South and their slave system seems a good cause for you, heck, it was a freedom fight! And now the evil apartheid system is better than a person fighting against it. Interesting

 

No matter how many people you call racist or how many times you times you click you ruby slippers together, communism still won't work.

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Ya know, for someone that preaches libertarian freedom, you sure seem to be on the wrong side of the issue of freedom when it comes to black folks. First the South and their slave system seems a good cause for you, heck, it was a freedom fight! And now the evil apartheid system is better than a person fighting against it. Interesting

 

Stop obfuscating with stupidity.

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http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/07/27/us-appeals-court-rejects-apartheid-cases-against-ford-ibm

 

 

Doug, you might find this interesting. On the technology and oppression front. IBM helped the government track and monitor the black majority in South Africa and helped send many into the hellish prisons. Probably arguing they were communist terrorists, so it was fine and dandy :thumbsup:

 

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html

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Truth hurts

 

What truth? That he was a communist terrorist fighting against US-supported groups in Angola's war for independence?

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/07/27/us-appeals-court-rejects-apartheid-cases-against-ford-ibm

 

 

Doug, you might find this interesting. On the technology and oppression front. IBM helped the government track and monitor the black majority in South Africa and helped send many into the hellish prisons. Probably arguing they were communist terrorists, so it was fine and dandy :thumbsup:

 

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html

 

Yes, and the makers of machetes should be held liable for the Rwandan genocide.

 

How do you even survive, being this stupid?

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What truth? That he was a communist terrorist fighting against US-supported groups in Angola's war for independence?

 

Yes, and the makers of machetes should be held liable for the Rwandan genocide.

 

How do you even survive, being this stupid?

Wow, you shouldn't call other people stupid! That's really dumb Tom.

 

What truth? That he was a communist terrorist fighting against US-supported groups in Angola's war for independence?

And your point is? Oh, that's right you probably do not have one...So you defend an SS murderer Joachem Peiper--yes Tom, he was just misunderstood...and mandela was a communist so bad.

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Wow, you shouldn't call other people stupid! That's really dumb Tom.

 

IBM made computers. South Africa used computers to register and track blacks. Ergo, you claim that IBM is complicit in apartheid.

 

So why aren't machete makers complicit in the Rwandan genocide?

 

 

And your point is? Oh, that's right you probably do not have one...So you defend an SS murderer Joachem Peiper--yes Tom, he was just misunderstood...and mandela was a communist so bad.

 

What the !@#$ are you talking about now?

 

And Mandela was a communist...which explains the socio-political dynamic under which he was trailed by the CIA, you !@#$ing retard. Don't judge historical decisions by contemporary mores.

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