CIA tip led to Mandela's imprisonment: Ex-spy
According to reports, ex-CIA operative Donald Rickard admitted that his tip in 1962 led to the 27-year imprisonment of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. "He (Mandela) could have incited a war in South Africa, the US would have to get involved," he said. The USA believed that Mandela was “completely under the control of the Soviet Union,” he added.