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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela, a rare confirmation from any sitting US leader about the secret spy agency's operations.

The acknowledgement comes after the US military, in recent weeks, has carried out a series of deadly strikes against alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean, destroying at least five boats since early September, that have killed 27 people

Four of those boats have come from Venezuela.

“I authorised for two reasons, really. No.

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