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The plot to divert Maduro's plane
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
The reported CIA attempt to recruit Nicolás Maduro's pilot so that a flight carrying him into exile in Havana would instead land at Key West, where the DEA would seize him — a Noriega repeat that prompted John Kiriakou to ask why a government pursuing regime change should care where the deposed ruler goes.
The plot to divert Maduro’s plane is the operation reported in late October 2025 and discussed by John Kiriakou on the last day of that month.
The operation as reported
“The CIA tried to recruit Maduro’s pilot,” Kiriakou says, “so that were Maduro to flee, ostensibly for Cuba, the plane, instead of landing in Havana, would land in Key West, and the DEA would grab him and then take him to Miami, just like we did to Noriega, and charge him with international drug trafficking.”[1][2]
The question he cannot answer
What interests Kiriakou is why the destination should matter at all. If the object is regime change, he asks, “what do you give a — where the deposed ruler goes? Why do you care if they go to Havana or Russia or Saudi Arabia or Nigeria?” He extends the puzzlement backwards: “I still don’t even understand what Bush got out of” the Noriega prosecution.[2][3]
The answer he supplies is about display rather than security: “you get the — it’s a trophy to put him on trial and to say that you captured him.”[3]
Why he thinks it would not have worked
Kiriakou relays the assessment of Colonel Doug Macgregor, whom he had spoken to days earlier and describes as very conservative “but in a libertarian kind of way”: that Maduro “is not stupid”, that he “is not going to go anywhere unless the United States physically invades Venezuela”, and that even then he would not be foolish enough to go to Cuba but would have arranged Moscow in advance.[3][4]
Whether he could reach Moscow uncaught is another matter — “that’s a long trip” — and Kiriakou’s reference point for how perilous such a journey can be is Edward Snowden’s.[4]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
