Exfiltrating María Corina Machado from Venezuela

About this episode

Bryan Stern discusses his secret mission to extract opposition leader María Corina Machado from Venezuela.

Before Delta Force captured Nicolás Maduro, Bryan Stern went on a secret mission in Venezuela. The veteran and Purple Heart recipient was there to extract opposition leader María Corina Machado, who had been living in hiding for her own safety. Bryan was trying to get María to Oslo to accept her Nobel Peace Prize. This daring operation – named Operation Golden Dynamite after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite – involved land, sea, and air. This is just one of many high-stakes evacuations Bryan has conducted through his nonprofit organization, Grey Bull Rescue. Sasha and Bryan sat down to discuss the operation, just a few days after he returned from Venezuela. Subscribe to Sasha's Substack, HUMINT, to get more intelligence stories: https://sashaingber.substack.com/ For more information about the International Spy Museum, visit: https://www.spymuseum.org/ And if you have feedback or want to hear about a particular topic, you can reach us by email at spycast@spymuseum.org. This show is brought to you by N2K Networks, Goat Rodeo, and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. This episode was produced by Flora Warshaw and the team at Goat Rodeo. At the International Spy…

People in this episode

Host: Sasha Ingber

Guest: Bryan Stern

Topics covered

• Venezuela
• political extraction
• Nobel Peace Prize
• military operations
• humanitarian efforts

Keywords

• Bryan Stern
• María Corina Machado
• Nicolás Maduro
• Operation Golden Dynamite
• Venezuela
• extraction mission
• Nobel Peace Prize

Sponsors

N2K Networks, Goat Rodeo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Grey Bull Rescue, International Spy Museum

Places: Venezuela, Oslo

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