A U.S. judge has denied a motion from indicted former Venezuelan Gen. Clíver Antonio Alcalá Cordones to have the U.S. government produce records about his connections to the CIA. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Cordones conspired with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, other top regime officials, and members of Colombia’s Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) to ship cocaine to the United States. But Cordones surprised observers in January when he not only denied involvement with any narco-terrorism scheme; he said he actually tried to overthrow Maduro’s socialist government—with the blessing of the CIA. Who is telling the truth in the matter is not clear, as U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied Cordones’s motion for the CIA to produce records in his March 17 order. A pretrial conference is set for May 3. The details of Cordones’s alleged anti-Maduro activities read like a spy novel. According to the motion, Cordones …