In an unusual move, President Donald Trump announced a covert strike in Venezuela. It's not the first time he has publicly touted covert operations.

The article reviews publicly disclosed CIA involvement in Venezuela, including recent acknowledgements of covert action authority and a reported CIA strike, and compares those disclosures to declassified campaigns in Guatemala and Chile to show how documentation and transparency differ over time.

WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - At 4:21 on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump sent a message on his Truth Social platform: the United States had carried out a daring mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

The CIA has assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack in the north of his country, according to US officials, undercutting an assertion the Russian president had made to Trump in a Monday phone call.

Classified CIA intel reveals President Donald Trump is backing Nicolás Maduro's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to lead Venezuela, snubbing Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, according to a new report.

Venezuelan police were ordered to “immediately begin the national search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack by the United States.”

The CIA was behind a drone strike last week at a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels.

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed 1,800 miles northwest of Hawaii in a vast ocean wilderness toward the Soviet Union,

During the Cold War, the US government secretly explored using individuals with claimed psychic abilities, known as remote viewers, as spies to gain an edge over the Soviet Union. Project Star Gate, which ran from the 1970s to 1995,