The memorandum also shed additional light on the partial dissent of the FBI.
He said that, although FBI analysts agreed with the general evaluation of the other agencies, they also thought that “some Venezuelan government officials facilitate the migration of members of Venezuela to the United States and use their members as proxies in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the United States to advance what they consider in the objective of the Maduro regime to destabilize governments and undermine public security in these countries ”.
The FBI based its observation on “people arrested for participating in criminal activities in the United States or by illegally entering the country.” But “the majority” of the intelligence community “judges that the intelligence that indicates that the regime leaders are directing or allowing the migration of ADD to the United States is not credible,” said the memorandum.
When examining the available evidence, the National Intelligence Council considered whether the detainees “could have credible access to the information communicated” and if they had offered details that could corroborate about the support that the Maduro government had supposedly provided to the gang in exchange for following its indications.
Although parts of this section were censored, the memorandum showed skepticism. The legal problems of the detainees, they said, could “motivate them to make false statements about their links with the Venezuelan regime in an effort to avoid the responsibility of their crimes and reduce any punishment by providing excular or ‘valuable information to US prosecutors.”
At the end of March, the memorandum pointed out, Chilean officials told the International Criminal Court that suspected that the murder of a Venezuelan in Chile last year had been carried out by “a cell or group linked to the Aragua train that had political motivations” and originated from an order of the Venezuelan government. Maduro’s government denied that accusation.
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