Overview
- The organization published a short video on January 16 showing the nighttime handoff at sea, the transit to Curaçao, and Machado’s departure by air to Norway.
- Grey Bull says the extraction was executed on December 9, took roughly 16 hours, and was conducted largely in darkness across rough Caribbean waters to avoid detection.
- In the clip, Machado identifies herself, says she is safe, and expresses gratitude to the team led by founder Bryan Stern, who appears in the footage.
- The group describes the mission as donor-funded with no formal U.S. government support, though U.S. forces were notified of the team’s presence at sea.
- Machado had spent about a year in hiding in Venezuela and later received medical attention in Norway after the taxing maritime leg, offering no further comment on Friday due to security concerns.