Why you should take CIA’s role in Mandela’s arrest seriously
Recent revelations in regard to CIA’s role in the 1962 arrest of South African anti-apartheid revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela should be taken seriously, an analyst suggests, saying the US still pursues the “apartheid policy” elsewhere in the world.
According to a Press TV interview with Bartle Sociology Professor Emeritus James Petras, “most experts in Washington and New York are in agreement” with the narrative posited by a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative in regard to the spy agency’s role in Mandela’s arrest.
Donald Rickard told British film director John Irvin that his tip-off about Mandela’s whereabouts led to the leader’s arrest on August 5, 1962, the Sunday Times reported.
According to Rickard, who died earlier this year, the CIA was “teetering on the brink here and it had to be stopped, which meant Mandela had to be stopped. And I put a stop to it.”
“For one thing, the US government was at the time engaged in repressing civil rights movement in US cities and had no standing regarding the support of the black liberation movements,” Petras said.
Washington was also in “collaboration with the apartheid regime,” he added.
“The US was working with South Africa in repressing Angola and the other Portuguese colonies,” he noted, referring to the measures as a “fact that was covered up.
Apartheid today
The US ties with the apartheid regime, Petras argued, is reminiscent of the country’s policies in the Middle East today.
Washington’s proclivity for the regime, “which was working in collaboration with Israel’s repression of Palestinians,” communicates the fact that “the same role the US is playing today.”
“Washington [is] playing hand in glove with Saudi Arabian regime against the independent and democratic process that’s unfolding in Yemen and Iran.”
Rickard’s revelation featured Irvin’s film Mandela’s Gun scheduled to be screened at the Cannes film festival this week, has led to criticism from South Africa’s ruling ANC party.
“They never stopped operating here,” said African National Congress (ANC) national spokesman Zizi Kodwa Monday.
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