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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)