Did JFK try to rein in the CIA after Mandela's arrest?
Nelson Mandela with members of the Kennedy family at the JFK Library in 1990.
In the wake of Nelson Mandela's passing, the story that the CIA played a role in his arrest in August 1962 has made news from Washington to London to Moscow.
I wonder what President Kennedy thought?
The claim of CIA involvement was first made in a wire service story at the time, …
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