US EditionReport: Ex-Chevron Exec Advised CIA Before Maduro Capture
Ali Moshiri advised the U.S. on Venezuela's leadership post-capture and is raising $2 billion to invest in oil assets, aiming for a 250% return on production and reserves.
- On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that former Chevron executive Ali Moshiri advised the CIA on the Trump administration's military operation to capture President Nicolas Maduro.
- Moshiri, who served as a CIA informant since the Hugo Chavez era, warned the agency that installing opposition leader Maria Machado would create a "quagmire like Iraq," recommending Vice President Delcy Rodriguez instead.
- Now CEO of Amos Global Energy, Moshiri told the Financial Times that interest in Venezuelan oil has "gone from zero to 99 per cent," with his firm preparing a $2bn private placement memorandum.
- While Chevron denied authorizing any CIA engagement regarding Venezuela's leadership, investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz argued the company still stands to profit from Moshiri's advice.
- Analysts warn that meaningful production increases in Venezuela remain years away, as the country's oil industry requires tens of billions of dollars to fix "broken infrastructure.
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In the months before the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the CIA agencies called on an older "friend" to find out who would be the most suitable person to replace the dictator from Caracas. The former chief of Chevron's operations...
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Former Chevron Executive Reportedly Warned CIA That Forceful Regime Change In Venezuela Could Result in 'Another Iraq'
Ali Moshiri, a longtime Chevron executive who oversaw the company's operations in Venezuela, warned the CIA that attempting to replace the country's leadership with the democratic opposition could produce instability similar to the aftermath of the Iraq war, according to a new report.
Chevron's former executive, Ali Moshiri, who for decades was one of the main interlocutors of oil in Venezuela Pdvsa, collaborated as an informant of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and advised Washington before the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, reported yesterday The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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