According to people involved in the briefing on the US operation, the CIA placed intelligence sources within the Venezuelan government to continuously monitor Maduro's location in the days before US special forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The CIA provided key intelligence leading to Maduro's arrest — in addition to information provided by Venezuelan informants, it also used invisible drone formations to monitor Venezuela almost uninterrupted to track its location and movements. It is currently unclear how the CIA recruited Venezuelan informants to inform the US about Maduro's whereabouts. However, a former official said that the US government's previous move to collect leads to Maduro's arrest with a reward of 50 million US dollars clearly helped intelligence agencies. A person familiar with the circumstances of Maduro's arrest said that the operation was the result of deep cooperation between the CIA and the military, and had gone through months of careful planning.

According to people involved in the briefing on the US operation, the CIA placed intelligence sources within the Venezuelan government to continuously monitor Maduro's location in the days before US special forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The CIA provided key intelligence leading to Maduro's arrest — in addition to information provided by Venezuelan informants, it also used invisible drone formations to monitor Venezuela almost uninterrupted to track its location and movements. It is currently unclear how the CIA recruited Venezuelan informants to inform the US about Maduro's whereabouts. However, a former official said that the US government's previous move to collect leads to Maduro's arrest with a reward of 50 million US dollars clearly helped intelligence agencies. A person familiar with the circumstances of Maduro's arrest said that the operation was the result of deep cooperation between the CIA and the military, and had gone through months of careful planning.