New evidence of CIA role in Mandela's arrest

Axios - New evidence being revealed today by Richard Stengel on TIME.com strengthens claims that the CIA helped South Africa's racist regime capture anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in 1962, Axios' Russell Contreras writes. The report adds to evidence that President John F. Kennedy's administration played a role in Mandela's arrest, at a time when U.S. officials were coming to grips with an increasingly intense civil rights movement in America. Mandela wound up spending 27 years in prison for leading the African National Congress, which opposed apartheid policies that kept South Africa's Black residents segregated. He was released in 1990 as apartheid crumbled, and was elected South Africa's first Black president in 1994. He died in 2013 at age 95.