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The CIA is supplying most of the real-time intelligence behind the Trump administration’s lethal missile strikes on suspected drug-running boats in the Caribbean, three sources say—a role not previously disclosed. The military fires the weapons, but CIA satellite and signals data guides targets and will likely remain secret, limiting scrutiny. The White House calls those hit “designated narcoterrorists,” and Trump has cited intelligence in touting a destroyed semi‑submersible. Experts in international humanitarian law, including Yale’s Harold Koh, argue the killings of civilians at sea are illegal and lack a stated legal basis.

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