The UK’s Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee (DSMC) killed a defence magazine’s plan to show that UK special forces assisted the US to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
The minutes of a DSMC meeting in April 2026 record that a ‘defence editor’ – rather than expose the scandal directly – had gone to the DSMC for ‘advice’ on whether to publish. And the DSMC had invoked a standing ‘advisory’ (DSMA, formerly D-notice) on special forces operations to kill it:
Criminal accomplices
The Trump regime’s kidnapping of Maduro was a gross breach of international law to steal Venezuela’s oil reserves – and the UK colluded in it. Independent journalist Matt Kennard, who discovered the note, said:
A UK defence editor had information that UK Special Forces operating in Central America were involved in the US kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Jan 2026.
Article was never published after UK military’s ‘D-Notice’ censorship body told the editor to spike it.
And he followed up by pointing out how determined the UK government has been in refusing to recognise the illegality: