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Ryan Shapiro: an activist who's suing the CIA over Nelson Mandela's arrest
It appears that Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The revelations --made in a British newspaper-- are based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard shortly before he died. Among those who have a pending suit against the CIA to release documents on the affair is Ryan Shapiro, a national security researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(Caption: Nelson Mandela during a meeting with a group of American and South African students in June 2009. Credit: AP Photo/Theana Calitz-Bilt)
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