The "revelation" that the CIA provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government that led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest is old news for anyone who read Tim Weiner's book 'Legacy of Ashes', a History of the CIA (2007). The agency had worked in the closest harmony with the South African BOSS, the Bureau of State Security. Gerry Gossens, CIA station chief in Pretoria at that time, declared, "they had fingered Mandela".
The "revelation" that the CIA provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government that led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest is old news for anyone who read Tim Weiner's book 'Legacy of Ashes', a History of the CIA (2007). The agency had worked in the closest harmony with the South African BOSS, the Bureau of State Security. Gerry Gossens, CIA station chief in Pretoria at that time, declared, "they had fingered Mandela".