The circumstances leading to the arrest of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, remained shrouded in mystery until now, when a former agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Donald Rickard, revealed to British film director, John Irvin, how the agency actively partook in the intelligence gathering that led to the arrest of the anti-apartheid world leader in 1962.

According to an interview in Daily Mail , 88-year-old Donald Rickard reported that the move was  part of a Cold War political machination to annihilate Nelson Mandelawho he (Donald Rickard) described as ‘the world’s most dangerous communist outside the Soviet Union.’

Donald, who died days after his confession, had maintained that he had no regrets tipping off the CIA, arguing that Nelson Mandela, together with Communist Russia, was planning ‘a Soviet invasion’ against America thus the need for him to prevent such an occurrence.

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