NBC News: A CIA team, steel doors and a fateful phone call: How the U.S. captured Maduro in Venezuela

As early as August, the CIA quietly sent a small unit into Venezuela with the goal of providing “extraordinary insight” into Maduro’s movements, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Even his pets were known to U.S. intelligence agents, Dan “Raizin” Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the news conference Saturday.

Elite troops trained for months, going so far as to use a replica of the presidential compound based on intelligence that the U.S. had gathered, Trump said in an interview with Fox News — the same way the troops who killed Osama bin Laden practiced in 2011 with a model of his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They trained with what Trump called “massive blowtorches” in case they had to cut through steel walls in Maduro’s safe room.


link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/us-venezuela-strike-nicolas-maduro-captured-how-timeline-trump-rcna252041