On CIA radar: Why it’s harder than ever for world leaders to evade US surveillance

When Nicolás Maduro and his wife walked into their apartment deep in a Caracas military base on an early January morning, they had no way of knowing that their every movement was being tracked by American intelligence.

Or that the apartment, including the safe room, had been replicated in Kentucky by a Delta team that did dozens of practice runs figuring out how to immobilize the guards and breach the doors.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei apparently ignored the evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency (

CIA

) was tracking him and his top leaders, too – an operation that President

Donald Trump

exposed in a social media post eight months ago. When the United States and Israel discovered that he and his national security team would be gathering Saturday (February 28) morning, they advanced the timeline for their attack.