U.S. President Donald Trump decided to declassify a CIA attack conducted inside Venezuela on December 24, according to U.S. officials speaking to The Wall Street Journal, as reported by @FaytuksNetwork on X over the past hour ending at 2:15 AM UTC on December 31. Retired CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos stated that some in the intelligence community expressed frustration over Trump's previous decision to disclose the CIA's overall operation in Venezuela last October, according to the same Wall Street Journal article cited by @FaytuksNetwork during the reporting window from 1:16 AM to 2:15 AM UTC. Independent footage of a U.S. strike aftermath emerged, filmed on November 6 at 16:16 in Puerto López, Colombia, across the Gulf of Venezuela, with metadata and geolocation confirmed by Washington Post journalists who met the filmer, as posted by @trbrtc and @tom_bike on X in the past hour. The footage represents the only known independent video of a U.S. strike in a campaign that has killed over 100 people, according to @trbrtc quoting the Washington Post report shared during this 59-minute period. This development follows Colombian President Gustavo Petro's statement on December 30 claiming Trump bombed an ELN drug factory in Maracaibo, Venezuela, as reported in prior coverage, amid ongoing U.S. operations in the region.
