New details appear to strengthen claims that the CIA helped South Africa's racist regime capture anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in 1962. The report adds to evidence that President John F. Kennedy's administration played a role in Mandela's arrest at a time when U.S. officials were coming to grips with an increasingly intense civil rights movement in America.

Mandela wound up spending 27 years in prison for leading the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed apartheid policies that kept South Africa's Black residents segregated, often in inhumane conditions.