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Elite Investigative Journal
Mandela & The CIA Surveillance that Led to his Incarceration, pg 35-38
©2014-2016 SYT Global, Inc.
Mandela & The CIA
Surveillance that Led to his
Incarceration
by Chris Stevenson
Photo Courtesy of politicalblindspot.com
After Nelson Mandela and his co-defendants’ miraculous acquittal of the treason trial, he
went into exile. It was then that the Central Intelligence Agency began or intensiied their
surveillance of him. Though this is news to many, it shouldn’t be, given the CIA’s history on the
Dark Continent. The agency was already deep in the Congo holding up African progress, how
far of a stretch would it be for some of them to move operations toward the south?
Mandela was arrested in ‘56 for “high treason” and attempting to “violently overthrow the
state.” In all 156 were arrested, four days later they were released on bail. When Mandela got
home on bail his wife Evelyn had already moved out of the house leaving it bare. Rumors of
inidelity plus her membership in the Jehovah’s Witnesses prevented her from supporting him
in the struggle even though the Watchtower had no immediate viable answers for black South
Africans either. Trial began in 1957 and went on for three years. In the midst of 17 African
countries due to become independent in 1960, South Africa seemed to be going backwards.
If the treason trial didn’t prove it, something more devastating soon would. The 3/21/60
Sharpeville Massacre where South African police-while in front of their own headquarters-
would ire blindly into a crowd of black protesters, women conversing and laughing amongst
each other irst according to eyewitnesses, and then children, in all 69 people were murdered,
over 180 wounded.
Some time ago a former African National Congress (ANC) bomb maker named Dennis
Goldberg said during an event: “We believe that there was a British Intelligence agent in the
nearby caravan park. Everyone thought he was a birdwatcher because he would climb up a
telegraph pole with binoculars every day. But I think we were the birds he was watching,”
according to a 7/11/13 story by Hannah Osborn for International Business Times. The British
spy agency MI5 also was known to spy on him at the same time. Goldberg was arrested during
a raid in July of ‘63, at a farm once known to be one of Mandela’s hideouts; Lilies Land
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Mandela & The CIA Surveillance that Led to his Incarceration, pg 35-38
©2014-2016 SYT Global, Inc.
Mandela & The CIA
Surveillance that Led to his
Incarceration
by Chris Stevenson
Photo Courtesy of politicalblindspot.com
After Nelson Mandela and his co-defendants’ miraculous acquittal of the treason trial, he
went into exile. It was then that the Central Intelligence Agency began or intensiied their
surveillance of him. Though this is news to many, it shouldn’t be, given the CIA’s history on the
Dark Continent. The agency was already deep in the Congo holding up African progress, how
far of a stretch would it be for some of them to move operations toward the south?
Mandela was arrested in ‘56 for “high treason” and attempting to “violently overthrow the
state.” In all 156 were arrested, four days later they were released on bail. When Mandela got
home on bail his wife Evelyn had already moved out of the house leaving it bare. Rumors of
inidelity plus her membership in the Jehovah’s Witnesses prevented her from supporting him
in the struggle even though the Watchtower had no immediate viable answers for black South
Africans either. Trial began in 1957 and went on for three years. In the midst of 17 African
countries due to become independent in 1960, South Africa seemed to be going backwards.
If the treason trial didn’t prove it, something more devastating soon would. The 3/21/60
Sharpeville Massacre where South African police-while in front of their own headquarters-
would ire blindly into a crowd of black protesters, women conversing and laughing amongst
each other irst according to eyewitnesses, and then children, in all 69 people were murdered,
over 180 wounded.
Some time ago a former African National Congress (ANC) bomb maker named Dennis
Goldberg said during an event: “We believe that there was a British Intelligence agent in the
nearby caravan park. Everyone thought he was a birdwatcher because he would climb up a
telegraph pole with binoculars every day. But I think we were the birds he was watching,”
according to a 7/11/13 story by Hannah Osborn for International Business Times. The British
spy agency MI5 also was known to spy on him at the same time. Goldberg was arrested during
a raid in July of ‘63, at a farm once known to be one of Mandela’s hideouts; Lilies Land
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