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A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the countrys leadership -- a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law.

MIAMI -- A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the countrys leadership -- a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law.

The revelation comes at a fraught moment in U.S.-Venezuela relations and offers a rare window into the lengths the DEA was willing to go in a country that banned U.S. drug agents nearly two decades ago.

MIAMI (AP) -- A secret memo obtained by the Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the countrys leadership -- a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law.

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‘Operation Money Badger’ was a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that targeted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership – a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law. The 2018 memo outlines “Operation Money Badger,” a yearslong investigation that authorities said targeted dozens of people, including Venezuel...

While there's no clear mechanism to hold the United States accountable legally, the revelation threatens to roil already fraught relations with Maduro’s socialist government.

An explosive newly revealed secret memo spells out a DEA plan to rely on informants inside Venezuela to build drug trafficking cases against officials there.

A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives…