prolific transparency activists, ryan shapiro, reveals he is suing the nsa, fbi, and defense intelligence agency in an attempt to force the agencies to open the records detailing how the u.s. secretly helped apartheid south africa capture leadingandela in 1962, to his 27 years in prison. we will also speak with ryan shapiro about why the fbi considers his academic research on the animal rights movement a threat to national security. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the obama administration is preparing to ask congress to reform the national security agency s own collection of phone records one of the most controversial nsa practices exposed by edward snowden. the new york times, setting an end officials, says the proposal would leave the bulk data in the hands of phone companies. to obtain specific records, the nsa would seek permission from a judge in the form of a new kind of court order
Nelson Mandela served 27 years in an South African Prison before his release in 1990 as the government of apartheid South Africa collapsed. In 1993, he would become the President of South Africa s new multiracial government.
Nelson Mandela is heard in a previously unreleased interview speaking on how police knew where to find him, fueling theories agents tipped off the South African government in 1962.
A new investigative report suggests that the CIA may have had a hand in the 1962 arrest of South African anti-apartheid activist and politician Nelson Mandela.
The CIA was established in 1947 and tasked with carrying out intelligence work outside the United States. But the agency soon strayed from its original