CNN: CIA Carried out First U.S. Drone Attack on Venezuelan Land on a Port Facility

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BERTRAND: “Well, Jim, this is actually an operation that was carried out. We‘re told by sources by the CIA, and it was done via a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela. Now, as you said, this would mark the first known U.S. attack on a target inside that country. So it is definitely a significant escalation that the president you know, has been alluding to over the last several days but has refused to elaborate on and refuse to say who actually carried out the strike. Well, now we‘re learning that this drone strike by the CIA, which we‘re told was supported by intel, support by special operations forces, targeted a remote dock on the Venezuelan coast that the U.S. government believed was being used by that Venezuelan gang, tren de aragua, which the U.S. government has designated as a foreign terrorist organization to store drugs and move them onto boats for onward shipping. So that‘s consistent with what the president had said. Now, we‘re told that no one was actually present at that Venezuelan facility at the time it was struck. So there were no casualties. But one of our sources did say the strike was successful in that it destroyed the facility and its boats. Jim.”