CIA operatives launched a massive drone attack on a Venezuelan port where drugs were allegedly being loaded onto boats heading to the US, sources claim.

Donald Trump declared on Monday that his military “hit” a Venezuelan dock area but refused to elaborate on how he orchestrated the strike.

The Christmas Eve drone strike was carried out by the CIA, multiple sources told CNN.

While welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago property, Trump announced: “We hit all the boats”.

He added: “There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.

“We hit all the boats, and now we hit the area.”

When asked if the CIA had been behind the attack, Trump said: “I don’t want to say that. I know exactly who it was but I don’t want to say who it was.”

Trump has previously said that he has authorised the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela. 

Sources claim the strike took place on a remote dock on the coast of Venezuela said to be used by the Tren de Aragua gang to stockpile and transfer drugs across the Caribbean.

No one was killed in the attack with the US has yet to release video footage as it has for other successful seizures and bombardments.

Historically, strike announcements have come from either Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth or one of the U.S. military’s social media accounts on social media platform X.

However, neither has posted any notice of any strike on a facility, and the Pentagon has referred all questions on the matter to the White House.

US launches strike on Venezuela hitting ‘big facility’, Trump announces in first direct hit on despot Maduro’s territory

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Trump had hinted at the strike earlier in the day, as he continues his pressure campaign against the South American nation.

His first comments came from a surprise radio interview on Friday with host John Catsimatidis.

After ringing the show, the president discussed U.S. strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

“I don’t know if you read or saw, they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the … where the ships come from,” Trump said.

“Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So, we hit them very hard.”

He added no additional information during the interview.

In the 29 known targeted strikes, at least 105 people have been killed since September.

Venezuela’s government has yet to respond to Trump’s latest claims.

This comes after months of The Don hinting he would order land strikes on Venezuela – and possibly elsewhere – while also saying the US would escalate action from striking boats to striking on land.

In October, he confirmed he had authorised a covert CIA operation in Venezuela.

The agency has yet to back Trump’s claims.

To date, Trump’s troops have sent warships, built up military forces in the region, seized two oil tankers and pursued a third.

The White House says it is in armed conflict with drug cartels and is seeking to stem the flow of illicit substances into the US, as a part of Trump’s ongoing “war on drugs”.

Part of his campaign against the South American nation includes claims that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is at the head of the major cartels.

Maduro has denied the allegations, and continuously insisted the true motivation behind the military operations is to force him from power.

Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles recently told Vanity Fair that the president “wants to keep on blowing boats up until Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro cries uncle”.