US sought to lure Nicolás Maduro’s pilot into betraying the Venezuelan leader
Headline from NBC 6 South Florida
In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a clandestine meeting, the aviator would be made a very rich man.
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MIAMI (AP) — A longtime U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and
The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where US authorities could nab the strongman.
A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman.
Armed with a $50 million bounty, a Homeland Security agent tried to flip Maduro’s personal pilot into delivering Venezuela’s president into U.S. custody.
