The mission involved more than 150 aircraft “launching across the Western Hemisphere in close coordination,” to extract Maduro and his wife from their residence in downtown Caracas while maintaining “the element of tactical surprise,” Caine said.
“Operation Absolute Resolve, was discreet, precise, and conducted during the darkest hours of January 2, and was the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal. An operation that, frankly, only the United States military could undertake,” Caine told reporters at Mar-a-Lago.
Caine said work planning the operation began months ago in collaboration with multiple agencies, including the CIA, National Security Agency, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, as the intelligence community worked “to find Maduro and understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled, what he ate, what he wore, [and] what were his pets.”
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