A new report from the Rio Grande Valley Sector Intelligence Unit (SIU) of the Border Patrol said that Venezuela is sending released prisoners and intelligence officers into the U.S. interior to eliminate human targets, according to an official who leaked the report to Breitbart News.
The report said that released inmates from Venezuelan prisons are being accompanied across the border into the U.S. by Venezuelan intelligence officers to track down former Venezuelan military members, politicians, and law enforcement officials who are now in the U.S. and kill them to prevent them from sharing classified information they may have.
The leak came from a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but that source was not authorized to speak to the media.
The source of the report was interviews done with criminal suspects and persons of interest.
It's a preliminary report that has not been fully verified, the source said.
“This is not the first report we have developed related to Venezuelan prison releases from sources we have interviewed,” the source explained. “This is alarming, considering we have a new administration entering office in January.”
The source further explained that the Venezuelan government fears that the 600,000 Venezuelans who crossed the border into the U.S. under the Biden administration will face new deportation proceedings and that some will offer to share information damaging to the government to avoid being deported or imprisoned in the U.S.
“The report’s timing raises more questions as the Maduro regime may fear some Venezuelans may trade information to avoid removal,” the source emphasized. “It certainly merits more investigation."
President-elect Donald Trump has referenced Venezuela releasing prison inmates in some of his campaign speeches.
Breitbart Texas broke the story of Venezuela's possible actions to release prisoners in 2022 based on another source that leaked a previous Border Patrol report.
The previous actions of releasing prisoners, if such actions did occur, were not related to any intelligence or counter-intelligence operations in Venezuela.
Still another report, this one from the U.N. in 2022, said that Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela’s equivalent to the CIA, previously committed crimes against its own people to quell dissent.
“Our investigations and analysis show that the Venezuelan State relies on the intelligence services and its agents to repress dissent in the country. In doing so, grave crimes and human rights violations are being committed, including acts of torture and sexual violence," Marta Valiñas, Chair of the United Nations Fact Finding Commission said at the time.
"These practices must stop immediately, and the individuals responsible must be investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the law,” she added.
