Venezuela Says CIA-Linked Mercenaries Caught During 'False-Flag Attack'

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/cia-venezuela-false-flag

Venezuela Says CIA-Linked Mercenaries Caught During ‘False-Flag Attack’

“This is a colonial operation of military aggression that seeks to turn the Caribbean into a space for lethal violence and US imperial domination.”

BRETT WILKINS
Oct 27, 2025

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Sunday that his country’s security forces captured a group of mercenaries aligned with the US Central Intelligence Agency, less than two weeks after President Donald Trump confirmed his authorization of covert CIA action against the South American nation.

Venezuela “reports that it has captured a mercenary group with direct information from the US intelligence agency, CIA, being able to determine that a false-flag attack is underway from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidad or Venezuelan territory itself,” the Venezuelan government said in a statement.

“This planned action perfectly evokes the provocation of the Battleship Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin, which gave rise to the war against Spain to seize Cuba in 1898 and allowed the US Congress to authorize involvement in an eternal war against Vietnam in 1964, from which they emerged defeated by the Vietnamese people after facing incalculable destruction and regrettable human loss,” the statement continues.

“The government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has renounced the sovereignty of Trinidad and Tobago to act as a military colony subordinate to US hegemonic interests, turning its territory into a US aircraft carrier for war throughout the Caribbean against Venezuela, Colombia, and all of South America,” Caracas asserted.

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1. Sheesh ... he can't even overthrow a Latin American country properly?!

Either Trump has completely fubarred his operational security, or CIA assets on the ground made absolutely no attempt to be covert as an FU to Trump.

Kind of like the live fire exercise that came close enough to hitting the VP's cavalcade in San Diego. I've been in the Navy, know how accurate you can get with modern artillery. The commander of that ship knew exactly what he was doing.

Trump does not understand that it takes a lot of time, effort and training to build up expertise in any endeavor, and it takes a hell of a lot of effort to build an intelligence network, work that he's likely now compromised globally.

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2. If it is true, good.

The U.S. has wanted to fuck up Venezuela for as long as I can remember.