During a March 30, 2008, meeting with an undercover agent posing as Venezuelan operative who called himself “Luis Jimenez,” Pedro Mascheroni said his proposed program included a laser “capable of blinding satellites.” He suggested that the Venezuelan government could use a nuclear program as leverage with the U.S. government. The FBI alleged that Pedro Mascheroni provided a coded disc with classified data at a post office box drop site. The government says Mascheroni told his handler his fee for the document was $793,000.
The U.S. government secretly recorded hours of discussions between Mascheroni and the FBI. In the recordings Mascheroni calaims he is no longer an American and that he had previously talked to agents of other countries about the information he possessed.
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