You caught AP writing more fiction posing as a real news story.
Their use of the unnamed source often makes the NY Slimes look more reliable. We know how un reliabe the Slimes is.
Actually as other posters have now established,
AP had the name of the operation correct.
For them that an improvement.
That's the great thing about FR, we have thousands of investigators and editors.
The true story normally is ferreted out quickly.