{"id":202190,"date":"2025-10-29T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=202190"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:13:10","slug":"us-secret-services-try-to-recruit-maduros-pilot-for-50m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/202190\/","title":{"rendered":"US secret services try to recruit Maduro\u2019s pilot for $50M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For 16 months, the United States tried to secretly persuade a Venezuelan Air Force pilot to divert President Nicolás Maduro’s plane in order to capture him. According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the pilot was offered $50 million for his cooperation.<\/p>\n

The report says a federal agent attempted to recruit the pilot, but U.S. intelligence officials ultimately failed in their efforts.<\/p>\n

The article describes the story as having “all the elements of a Cold War spy thriller” — luxurious private jets, secret meetings inside airport hangars, high-stakes diplomacy, and delicate efforts to lure one of Maduro’s key allies.<\/p>\n

Frustrated by the failure, the agent began sending threats to the pilot. However, the latter reportedly refused, saying “Venezuelans don’t betray their compatriots,” and eventually blocked the American’s phone number.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For 16 months, the United States tried to secretly persuade a Venezuelan Air Force pilot to divert President Nicolás Maduro’s plane in order to capture him. According to the Associated Press, the pilot was offered $50 million for his cooperation. The report says a federal agent attempted to recruit the pilot, but U.S. intelligence officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":202187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202191,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202190\/revisions\/202191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}