Caracas says the two Colombians and one Venezuelan were arrested on October 2 on charges they tried to bribe officials to get intelligence on the Venezuelan military for Colombia's DAS state security agency.
"We have captured officials from the DAS Colombian intelligence spying in Venezuela. They are jailed and we are going to put them on trial," Chavez said on Thursday. "Who is behind this? The hand of the United States."
Chavez, a fierce adversary of Washington's influence in Latin America, said this week two agents from the DAS had been arrested in Venezuela. Colombia says only one DAS official is being held and that it was unclear why he was detained.
DAS director Felipe Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday the official had been invited to Venezuela by a friend.
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