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[quote=Anonymous]During the years that I lived in various developing countries, the locals would often claim the involvement of the CIA in everything that went wrong in their countries. It was just a consistent theme that the CIA was involved.

We now know that the CIA has been involved in multiple plots ranging from overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Iran in the early fifties to doing the same to the democratically elected leader of Chile in the seventies to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba - the first president of the former Belgian Congo - in the sixties and multiple plots over the decades to kill Fidel Castro.

It now turns out that the CIA was involved in providing information to the apartheid regime of South Africa that enabled them to arrest Mandela!

[i]A former CIA spy said he played a key role in getting Nelson Mandela arrested in 1962, which led to a 27-year imprisonment. Donald Rickard, who was working as the U.S. vice consul in Durban at the time, said he was the one who provided the tip about Mandela’s whereabouts on that fateful day, according to the Sunday Times. Rickard gave the explosive declaration mere weeks before his March 30 death to British film director John Irvin. The former spy had no apparent qualms about what he did because Mandela was “the world’s most dangerous communist outside of the Soviet Union.”[/i]

[url]http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/15/former_u_s_spy_says_cia_played_key_role_in_nelson_mandela_arrest.html[/url]

Is it any wonder that the US is accused of plotting and otherwise fomenting unrest in some countries and why there is such suspicion about the CIA in these countries?[/quote]

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