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Film Revives Claim of CIA Role in Mandela Arrest

Former CIA operative Donald Rickard admitted that the American spy agency was behind Nelson Mandela's arrest outside Howick, KwaZulu-Natal in 1962.A report in Britain's Sunday Times carried excerpts of an interview with Rickard taken from a documentary film by John Irvin.

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (file photo).

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