C.I.A. TIE REPORTED IN MANDELA ARREST The Central Intelligence Agency played an important role in the arrest in 1962 of Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader who was jailed for nearly 28 years before his release four months ago, a news report says. The intelligence service, using an agent inside the African National Congress, provided South African security officials with precise information about Mr. Mandela\'s activities that enabled the police to arrest him, said the account by the Cox News Service. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/world/cia-tie-reported-in-mandela-arrest.html