CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro has said that he would let US FBI agents come to Venezuela to help investigate the alleged recent plot to kill him with explosive drones—but with conditions, reports AFP.

If US officials confirm “the offer for the FBI to investigate links in Florida with the assassination plan ... I would agree for the FBI to come here,” Maduro said at a late Saturday event with top military leaders.

According to Maduro, there are “terrorist cells” in the US state of Florida - home to a large community of Venezuelan immigrants - led by a man called Osman Delgado Tabosky, whom he claims was the mastermind of the alleged plot.

Maduro’s words follow a Wednesday statement by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza who said that the US charge d’affairs in Caracas, James Story, “expressed his concern” over the alleged August 4 murder plot, as well as “the willingness of his government to cooperate”.

Two drones packed with explosives flew toward Maduro as he was attending a military parade in Caracas, officials have said. When a detonation occurred, soldiers were seen running away in panic.