This is inaccurate. Mandela was arrested in the 1962, and Shirley (the person in question) only retired from the agency a decade later, in 1973. http://www.sa

This is inaccurate. Mandela was arrested in the 1962, and Shirley (the person in question) only retired from the agency a decade later, in 1973. http://www.salon.com/1996/11/14/news_577/ http://www.salon.com/1996/11/14/news_577/ I believe the confusion comes from when the training manuals for the South African security/intelligence forces were being developed by him, which came later, after his ostensible retirement.