{"id":496891,"date":"2026-01-06T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/former-cia-agent-and-former-pentagon-official-details-keys-to-the-capture-of-nicolas-maduro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:52:35","slug":"former-cia-agent-and-former-pentagon-official-details-keys-to-the-capture-of-nicolas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/former-cia-agent-and-former-pentagon-official-details-keys-to-the-capture-of-nicolas-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA agent and former Pentagon official details keys to the capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>. – The United States Army veteran and former senior intelligence analyst as a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency<\/a> (DIA), Ron Aledo, confirmed that the CIA carried out a sophisticated penetration operation of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro’s inner circle for months.\n\n“The CIA bought off a great many Venezuelan generals, put them on their payroll to facilitate the penetration of the helicopters that captured Maduro,” revealed Aledo, during an exclusive interview with journalist Francisco Tav\u00e1rez, in the El Dem\u00f3crata Communication Group.\n\nAccording to the former analyst, the recruitment process followed established protocols: “They speak with the relatives of these military personnel who live in the United States, identify potential candidates, investigate what they say on Facebook, on X, the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts their emails and texts to verify their loyalty to the regime.”\n\n\n

You can also read:<\/strong> Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez analyzes the democratic transition in Venezuela with Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAround 32 DEAD CUBAN AGENTS: THE PRICE OF LOYALTY\n\nRevealed, during the interview, that 32 Cuban intelligence officers guarding Maduro “perished defending him to the end”.\n\n“They are very difficult to buy, they are incredibly ideologically indoctrinated,” said the former analyst, who explained that the operation was “so gigantic, so big, so powerful” that not even the legendary Cuban intelligence could prevent it.\n\nAIR DEFENSES DISABLED: BETRAYAL FROM WITHIN\n\nThe former Pentagon official confirmed that the recruited generals played a crucial role in neutralizing Venezuelan defenses. “Possibly that same night they told their soldiers ‘you have the night off’, ‘helicopters are going to pass, don’t shoot’, ‘maintain the air defense’,” explained Aledo on how the Delta Force incursion was facilitated.\n\nIn addition, these military personnel provided “real-time operational intelligence: where Maduro is exactly, how many people are in his house, how many guards, how many Cuban escorts.” All of this complemented by satellite surveillance and NSA spy drones.\n\nDELCY RODR\u00cdGUEZ: PUPPET PRESIDENT OR INFILTRATOR?\n\nAledo raised two scenarios about the role of Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, the current acting president of Venezuela.\n\n“There is a possibility that she had already been recruited before, as I am sure that other people from Maduro’s inner circle were recruited,” he affirmed.\n\nHowever, the analyst considers Trump’s “Plan A” more likely: “To govern Venezuela through Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, use her as a puppet president, a puppet, so that through her Trump can take over all of Venezuela’s oil.”\n\n“She is between a rock and a hard place,” continued the military expert, “Either she does exactly what Trump says and at least keeps her life, or Plan B is with violence. Any day a missile could fall on them while they sleep.”\n\nTHE TRUE OBJECTIVE: PETRODOLLARS AND STOPPING CHINA\n\nContrary to the official discourse that it is a “police operation against drug trafficking”, Aledo revealed the true geopolitical motivations: “This is incredibly important for Trump because it defends the strength of the petrodollar. By seizing Venezuela’s giant oil reserves, it strengthens the dollar against Russia and China’s attempts to make the yuan an alternative.”\n\nThe former analyst also pointed out a secondary objective: “Indirectly overthrow the Cuban government. Without Venezuelan oil and without Venezuelan money, Trump and Rubio hope that the Cuban economy will collapse catastrophically.”\n\nPLAN B: COUP D’ETAT WITH RECRUITED GENERALS\n\nWhen journalist Francisco Tav\u00e1rez asked about the future of figures like Diosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino L\u00f3pez, Aledo was blunt: \u201cThese generals who are in the pay of the United States government are still there. If Delcy doesn’t do what Trump says, they can activate them for a military coup. And it’s a coup they’re going to win 100% for sure because they have all the support of United States military intelligence.\u201d\n\nThe veteran explained that Trump opted for a single target \u2014Maduro\u2014 to \u201cminimize violence and simplify the operation. Having multiple targets would have complicated things and increased the risk of American casualties.\u201d\n\nNO TROOPS ON THE GROUND: TRUMP’S STRATEGY\n\nAsked about the possibility of a military occupation, he ruled out this option: “I don’t think the plan is to send troops because it looks very bad, it would recall colonialism. Besides, we are in an election year. If the Senate or the House falls into Democratic hands in November, Trump’s party is over. He doesn’t want to complicate this with American casualties.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. – The United States Army veteran and former senior intelligence analyst as a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Ron Aledo, confirmed that the CIA carried out a sophisticated penetration operation of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro’s inner circle for months. “The CIA bought off a great many Venezuelan generals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25gn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}