Ex-Green Beret behind failed Venezuela raid lashes out at CIA, FBI …
Jan 11, 2025 · MIAMI (AP) — A former Green Beret accused of plotting an invasion of Venezuela in 2020 to try to overthrow Nicolás Maduro lashed out Friday at the CIA and FBI, claiming they sabotaged his efforts to oust the leftist leader. His lawyers asserted that he had the Trump administration’s support for the clandestine mission. Attorneys for Jordan Goudreau stated in court filings for the first ...
FBI demands footage from film about a former Green Beret - New …
Dec 7, 2024 · “Men of War” tells the story of Jordan Goudreau, a former Green Beret who, in 2020, as documented in the movie, helped plot a would-be coup against Venezuela’s authoritarian Maduro regime.
US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into ...
Aug 1, 2024 · A federal indictment unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida, accuses Jordan Goudreau and a Venezuelan partner, Yacsy Alvarez, of violating U.S. arms control laws when they allegedly assembled and sent to Colombia AR-styled weapons, ammunition, silencers, night vision goggles and other defense equipment requiring a U.S. export license.
Ex-Green Beret behind failed Venezuela raid released pending trial …
Sep 5, 2024 · Jordan Goudreau was arrested in July after a four-year investigation into the amphibious raid that ended with several combatants killed by Venezuelan security forces and two of his U.S. Special...
FBI demands footage from doc about ex-Green Beret who plotted …
Dec 7, 2024 · “ Men of War ” tells the story of Jordan Goudreau, a former Green Beret who, in 2020, as documented in the movie, helped plot a would-be coup against Venezuela’s authoritarianMaduro regime....
Former Green Beret and Venezuelan National Charged with …
Jul 31, 2024 · Jordan Guy MacDonald Goudreau, 48, of Melbourne, Florida, and Yacsy Alexandra Alvarez, 43, of Tampa, Florida, were arrested yesterday pursuant to a now-unsealed indictment charging them with conspiracy to violate export laws, smuggling goods from the United States, violating the Arms Export Control Act, and violating the Export Control Reform Act.
A former Green Beret behind a failed Venezuela raid in 2020 …
Jan 10, 2025 · Several were killed and two of Goudreau’s former Green Beret colleagues spent years in Venezuela’s prisons until a prisoner swap last year. The raid, dubbed “Operation Gideon,” ended up delivering a PR coup for Maduro, who has long accused the U.S. of covert actions to destabilize his rule, and became widely ridiculed as the “Bay of ...
Ex-Green Beret Goudreau, Who Planned Failed Venezuela Coup, Is …
Jul 31, 2024 · Jordan Goudreau, 48, had taken credit for a failed coup attempt against Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. He faces federal charges of illegal arms smuggling.
Ex boina verde arremete contra la CIA y el FBI por fallida incursión …
6 days ago · Los abogados de Jordan Goudreau declararon en documentos judiciales por primera vez que el condecorado veterano de combate tenía “autoridad de los niveles más altos del poder ejecutivo” para la incursión anfibia que terminó con varios combatientes muertos y dos de sus colegas de las Fuerzas Especiales de Estados Unidos en una prisión ...
US veteran charged with arms smuggling over failed Maduro …
Jul 31, 2024 · Jordan Goudreau, 48, was indicted in federal court in Tampa, Florida, on charges of sending AR-type firearms, night vision devices, laser sights and other equipment to Colombia without the ...
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