We take a deep dive into the covert mission where Delta Force, Navy SEALs and the Night Stalkers of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment boldly extracted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and brought him to the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges.
Special Operations, Ranger, and acclaimed journalist Jack Murphy shares some fascinating insight.
Murphy’s deeply classified and anonymous sources in the Intelligence and Special Operations community offer us a glimpse at how these operations are conducted.
Murphy deftly examines covert mission tactics, the legal setup for the mission, and the Trump administration’s admission of their desire to control Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
We also hear more about CIA sources on the ground, what may have turned them toward supporting the U.S. strategy, and how they cleared the way long before the strike was launched.
Murphy also describes an interesting connection between Black Ops and the FBI’s elite counter-terrorism tactical unit, Hostage Rescue Team (HRT).
We also dive deeper into the exfil timeline, the role of USS Iwo Jima, some key takeaways about the use of Joint Special Operations forces and how this mission echoes the not-so-distant sounds of unresolved wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.