The CIA's involvement in apartheid South Africa
Summary
This episode examines the CIA’s covert role in supporting apartheid South Africa to secure mineral wealth, detailing operations in Angola and the arrest of Nelson Mandela. Guests discuss how the "communist threat" was a pretext for US intervention, revealing the involvement of figures like Donald Ricard and Maurice Tempelsman. The conversation also covers the 1966 coup against Kwame Nkrumah, the Helderberg air crash, and the use of Israel as a proxy to sustain unsavory African regimes while maintaining plausible deniability.
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