CIA Role In MANDELA ARREST: "We gave them every detail-what he would be wearing, time of day, where"

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8. Did JFK rein in #CIA after Mandela's arrest?

Jefferson Morley asks an interesting question about this...

@jeffersonmorley: Did JFK rein in #CIA after Mandela's arrest?

What did JFK think?

In the bureaucratic lingo of the CIA, “Higher Authority” is a euphemism for the President. Whether the retired official was referring to the Kennedy White House is not known, but the language is suggestive.

Did JFK seek to protect Mandela’s comrades from arrest after Mandela was captured?

I don’t know the answer to that question. But as independent scholar Jim DiEugenio recently detailed in Consortium News, Kennedy openly supported Third World nationalist leaders like Mandela at a time when most U.S. military and intelligence officials were hostile.

I’m wondering if any scholars of Mandela’s life or Kennedy’s Africa policy can shed light on JFK’s reaction to Mandela’s arrest...

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/did-jfk-try-to-rein-in-the-cia-after-mandelas-arrest/