Jordan Goudreau

The first piece was just to catalyze and to have the US, or sorry, the Venezuelan, these Venezuelan generals do the heavy lifting.

To catalyze that, I needed to have a face-to-face with these guys to know that I was on the level, which this is not a playbook that I came up with.

This is the playbook for successful regime change, I guess we wanna call it, or whatever, like trying to oust dictators.

And so I follow a very simple, you know, follow a pretty strict set of rules when I did this.

Ultimately, what would happen is Maduro would have either, you know, fled the country or been replaced, but really it was three individuals.

Tariq al-Assami, it was Cabello, and it was Maduro back then.

So really, the first part of the operation is to catalyze that change, have the Venezuelan military come in and remove the bad leadership.

And then what ends up happening next is you have a countercoup.

And this countercoup is where the money needs to start flowing.

Drew Horne recognized this.

He essentially, yes, the money will flow once this first part is done.

Great.

I wasn't worried about the money after the fact.

Once the counter coup is complete, the counter coup basically is when you have other warring factions, which is largely opposition factions or whoever else is going to be trying to take control once there's a power vacuum.

I have enough money that I can align – I can basically align with the Venezuelan military and have some of my Americans come hit the ground and be able to provide mentorship and leadership to some of these – to the valid Venezuelan military.

The third stage is really just reconstruction and humanitarian and keying up for fair and free elections in Venezuela.

This was the overall plan.

This was never talked about in the news because –

It was told to me that the United States.

This would come from the U.S.