2026-08-13T19:31:35.621Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/politics/iran-threat-turkey-plane
在上个月土耳其北约峰会结束时，唐纳德·特朗普总统走上舞台之际，将他秘密带离该国的计划已经启动。
当天早些时候，美国官员向总统通报了令人担忧的消息。据了解情况的美国官员对CNN表示，伊朗方面已经掌握了他在安卡拉入住的豪华连锁酒店信息，清楚了解他的车队在土耳其首都的行进路线，并且仍意图暗杀他——可能使用肩扛式导弹击落空军一号。
伊朗能够掌握特朗普在土耳其首都行程安排的详细程度，令其团队感到警觉，尽管一些美国官员认为，在戒备森严的北约峰会期间，伊朗暗杀特朗普的阴谋不太可能得逞。
其中一名官员表示，以色列政府已向中央情报局分享了伊朗可能发动暗杀阴谋的情报。不过，中情局以及特朗普政府的其他一些官员对以色列的情报持怀疑态度。该官员告诉CNN，中情局内部有人对情报的可信度提出了质疑，同时也怀疑伊朗是否具备实施此类袭击的能力。
但据了解峰会情况的美国官员和其他人士透露，这些情报披露后，美国官员的戒备级别大幅提升。长期以来，伊朗对特朗普的生命威胁，以及美国境内发生的三起单独暗杀企图，都让特朗普团队笼罩在不安的氛围中。
于是，特朗普面色凝重，左手紧攥着一个文件夹，晚了两小时才出现在新闻发布会上，并宣称此次峰会取得了重大成功。但和前一天一样，特朗普听起来一直忧心忡忡，担忧伊朗想要取他性命。
“总统的生命非常危险，”他在三名内阁成员和多名高级幕僚的陪同下说道，“这是一份非常危险的职业。”
几分钟后特朗普离开了舞台。在他的车队离开总统府前往安卡拉机场四分钟后，一辆白色餐车停靠在了空军一号旁边。
官员们表示，为总统找到安全离开该国的办法，成了一小批高级官员的当务之急。他们在土耳其花费了整个上午和下午时间评估方案，并在特朗普与各国领导人举行多场会晤期间向其通报最新情况。
时间不允许进行冗长的审议。特朗普原计划于7月8日晚间离开土耳其，而具体威胁细节在数小时前才被披露。
在装饰华丽、戒备森严的贝什泰佩总统府的小房间里，比特朗普提前抵达土耳其的参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩将军，协调其他高级官员与特勤局共同制定计划。
官员们权衡了诸多因素，包括威胁本身的性质。以色列最先向美国通报了伊朗利用代理人暗杀特朗普的新阴谋，但信息含糊不清。鉴于当时美伊战争处于转折点，一些官员认为，这可能是试图影响特朗普的决策。
三名了解情况的美国消息人士表示，美国在此次访问前的情报评估显示，没有迹象表明伊朗存在针对特朗普的新的具体暗杀阴谋。相反，官员们称，伊朗各方不断传出要求处死特朗普的言论。
targeting特朗普的企图不限于伊朗领导层。在北约峰会前一周举行的阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊的为期多日的葬礼上，哀悼者举着标语呼吁伊朗杀死特朗普。
随着峰会的进行，一名美国官员透露，美国情报机构获取了更多有关伊朗可能从机场附近地面发射导弹袭击空军一号的情报。
对一些官员来说，这听起来有些牵强。考虑到美伊之间仍在进行的战争以及土耳其与伊朗的地理位置邻近，北约峰会的安保措施异常严密，甚至比通常的多国领导人聚会还要严格。
数万名土耳其安全部队和警察部署到了安卡拉，几乎每个街角都安装了临时摄像头。峰会会场和机场周围都设置了多层安保措施，来自北约32个成员国的领导人在此进出。
目前尚不清楚肩扛式导弹威胁的具体情报来源。总统离开后，美国和地区官员事后表示，没有逮捕任何武装分子，也没有发现导弹阴谋的证据。
尽管如此，特勤局在有限的时间内认定，这种潜在风险——无论其不确定性如何——都值得重视。
“当天的威胁严重到需要采取极端措施，”一名美国官员对CNN表示，“否则我们不会采取这些行动。”
两名了解情况的消息人士称，一些安保官员认为，在当天最早检测到导弹威胁时，让特朗普提前一天秘密离开土耳其是最安全的方式。
这一想法被否决了。特朗普维持了原定日程，包括与乌克兰和叙利亚领导人会晤，随后举行了新闻发布会。
不过很明显，针对他的生命威胁给他造成了一定的精神压力。
“我今天早上看到一则消息，我在他们所有人的名单上。到目前为止，我想我还算有点运气，”特朗普在与北约秘书长的晨间会晤中说道，“但这可能不会持续太久。”
就在特勤局、白宫和军方官员密谋将特朗普秘密送出该国的同时，特朗普本人也在着手解释为何他不乘坐前来土耳其时搭乘的价值4亿美元的大型喷气式客机返回美国。
这架由卡塔尔捐赠的波音747客机曾是特朗普的一大骄傲，尽管一些官员私下里对将其飞往紧邻伊朗的国家感到担忧。
从华盛顿的飞行过程很顺利，特朗普抵达安卡拉机场后与土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安会面时，还自豪地展示了这架他亲自挑选了全新涂装的新飞机。
他在停机坪上对埃尔多安说，那架旧飞机现在只是“备用机”。
但一天后，安保官员认定，无论是新飞机还是那架辨识度极高的浅蓝白色旧飞机，都不适合特朗普乘坐离开。特朗普很快意识到，这会引发一些尴尬的问题：为什么他坚称是世界上最好的飞机没有执行返程任务。
下午3点42分，就在即将与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基举行会晤之前，特朗普在网上发帖称，这架卡塔尔捐赠的新飞机将飞往英国的一个空军基地，让那里的美军有机会参观。
“所有人都非常兴奋，我们认为他们应该是第一批（参观者），”他写道，并补充说他将乘坐旧飞机“怀旧一下”。
事实上，他哪架都不会坐。他的顾问和特勤局制定的计划依赖于一项早已列入总统安保预案的精心策划的 deception。
“美国特勤局会持续分析广泛的信息，以实时指导我们在每个安保地点的保护行动，”特勤局通讯主管安东尼·古列尔米表示，“鉴于近期发生的暗杀企图以及针对总统的威胁大幅增加，我们将坚定不移地履行使命。”
该计划要求特朗普登上旧版空军一号，然后从主舱门快速走到飞机另一侧的另一个出口，那里正停着那辆白色餐车。
土耳其航空公司以美食餐点闻名；机组成员会戴着厨师帽、穿着白色制服，为乘客提供丰盛的蘸酱和地中海开胃菜，所有餐食都通过液压餐车送上飞机。
但这一次，餐车是空的，一名了解情况的人士透露。该人士表示，美国官员当天早些时候就征用了这辆餐车，但未具体说明征用原因。
餐车内部提前已经清空，里面坐着特朗普、他时刻不离的行政助理娜塔莉·哈普、他曾经的“贴身保镖”沃尔特·纳塔（如今担任椭圆形办公室运营主管）以及在特朗普团队工作了数十年、现任白宫人事办公室主任的丹·斯卡维诺。特勤局特工也在场。
一行人上车后，一名身着西装的特勤局特工坐在驾驶室副驾位置，全程162秒的车程穿过停机坪，抵达小型C-32A专机。
目前尚不清楚这份餐车运载清单是如何制定的。国防部长皮特·赫格斯瑟也登上了C-32A专机，与特朗普一同飞往英国的米尔登霍尔空军基地。
留在大型飞机上的有国务卿马可·卢比奥、财政部长斯科特·贝森特，以及特朗普的许多高级幕僚：高级政策顾问斯蒂芬·米勒、通讯主管史蒂文·张、秘书办公室主任威尔·沙夫、副国家安全顾问迈克尔·尼德汉姆以及副参谋长理查德·沃尔特斯。
包括随行团队和新闻办公室在内的其他工作人员也留在了这架飞机上，许多人都不知道特朗普不在他的前舱，甚至根本没在飞机上。他们被告知要拉下遮光板。
前特勤局特工、CNN特约撰稿人乔纳森·瓦克罗表示，特勤局在总统出行时使用类似三张牌骗术的伎俩并不罕见。“替身诱饵在总统出行时经常用到。想想你每次在华盛顿看到他登上直升机时，都会有三架一模一样的直升机不断玩换壳游戏，”瓦克罗说。
本周特朗普向记者坚称，实际上是他那架诱饵飞机——而非真正的他所在的飞机——在离开土耳其时面临最大危险，尽管当时没人知道他在机上。
但至少有一个迹象表明，美国官员认为两架飞机都面临潜在危险：两架飞机都在起飞时得到了战斗机护航。
Why officials decided to smuggle Trump out of Turkey with a catering truck and a secret plane
2026-08-13T19:31:35.621Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/politics/iran-threat-turkey-plane
By the time President Donald Trump walked onstage at the end of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, the plan to spirit him out of the country was already in motion.
Earlier that day, American officials had come to the president with alarming information. The Iranians knew which luxury chain hotel he’d been staying at in Ankara. They were aware of how his motorcade was moving around the Turkish capital. And they remained intent on killing him — potentially by using a shoulder-mounted missile to take down Air Force One, US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
The level of detail Iran had been able to ascertain about Trump’s arrangements in the Turkish capital alarmed his team, even though some American officials thought it implausible an Iranian plot to kill him could be successful at the highly fortified NATO summit.
The Israeli government had shared the intelligence of the potential Iranian assassination plot with the CIA, one of the officials said. However, the agency, as well as some other Trump officials, viewed the Israeli intelligence skeptically. Some within the CIA had raised questions about the credibility of the intelligence, as well as whether Iran even had such capabilities to carry through such an attack, the official told CNN.
Still, the disclosures led to a dramatically heightened state of alert among American officials, according to US officials and others familiar with what happened at the summit. Iran’s threats on Trump’s life, along with three separate assassination attempts in the United States, have long created an uneasy atmosphere for his team.
And so with a solemn face and clutching a binder in his left hand, Trump emerged two hours late to his press conference to declare the conference a major success. But as he’d been throughout the preceding day, Trump sounded preoccupied with Iran’s desire to see him dead.
“The life of a president is very dangerous,” he offered, flanked by three Cabinet members and some senior staff. “It’s a very dangerous profession.”
Trump left the stage a few minutes later. Four minutes after his motorcade pulled away from the presidential complex, headed toward Ankara’s airport, a white catering truck was pulling into place alongside Air Force One.
Devising a way for the president to leave the country safely had become the preoccupation of a small group of senior officials, who spent the morning and afternoon in Turkey assessing their options and updating Trump as he moved between meetings with world leaders, the officials said.
Time did not allow for lengthy deliberation. Trump was scheduled to leave Turkey on the evening of July 8, only hours after details of the specific threat came to light.
In small rooms inside the ornate, heavily fortified Beştepe Presidential Complex, Gen. Dan Caine, the Joint Chiefs chairman who had arrived in Turkey ahead of Trump, marshaled other top officials in coming up with a plan with the Secret Service.
Officials were weighing a number of factors, including the nature of the threat itself. Israel had first alerted the US to a new Iranian plot to assassinate Trump using its proxies, but the information was vague. With the war against Iran then at an inflection point, some officials believed it could be an attempt to influence Trump’s decision-making.
Three US sources familiar with the matter said American intelligence assessments before the trip showed no indication of a new, specific Iranian plot to kill Trump. Instead, officials described a steady drumbeat of chatter about various Iranian actors calling for Trump’s death.
The desire to target Trump was not limited to Iran’s leadership. At the days-long funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, held the weekend before the NATO summit, mourners held signs calling on Iran to kill Trump.
As the summit got underway, more information came to light from US intelligence centered around the potential threat to Air Force One from a missile fired from the ground near the airport, according to a US official.
To some officials, that sounded like a stretch. Security at the NATO summit was extraordinarily tight, even more than is typical for gatherings of world leaders, given the ongoing war with Iran and Turkey’s proximity to the country.
Tens of thousands of Turkish security forces and police officers had descended on Ankara, and temporary cameras were positioned on nearly every street corner. Multiple layers of security surrounded both the summit site and the airport, where leaders from all 32 NATO members were arriving and departing.
It is not clear where precisely the information about the shoulder-fired missile was derived from. US and regional officials said afterward no militants were taken into custody and no evidence of a missile plot was recovered after the president left.
Still, the Secret Service determined in the short timeframe they had that the potential risk — however uncertain — was worthy of taking seriously.
“The threat was serious enough that extreme measures needed to be taken that day,” a US official told CNN. “We wouldn’t have taken those steps otherwise.”
Some security officials believed the best way to safely remove Trump from Turkey was through secretly leaving the country earlier in the day, when the missile threat was first detected, two sources familiar with the matter said.
That idea was dismissed. And Trump maintained his schedule, including meeting with the leaders of Ukraine and Syria before convening his press conference.
It was clear, however, that the threat on his life was creating a measure of mental weight.
“I saw a thing this morning. I’m on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky,” Trump said during a morning meeting with the NATO secretary general. “But that maybe doesn’t last very long.”
As officials from the Secret Service, the White House and the military were formulating plans to secret Trump out of the country, a separate effort was untaken by Trump himself to explain why he wasn’t taking the $400 million jumbo jet he’d taken to Turkey back to the United States.
The Qatari-donated Boeing 747 had been a major point of pride for the president, even if some officials were privately wary of flying it overseas to a country neighboring Iran.
The flight from Washington had been successful, and Trump proudly beamed at the new aircraft — painted in a new colorway he’d selected himself — when he met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the airport after he arrived.
The old plane, he told his counterpart on the tarmac, was now just the “back-up.”
Yet security officials determined a day later that neither the new plane nor the older, highly recognizable light blue-and-white model would be ideal for Trump to leave on. That, the president quickly recognized, would lead to some uncomfortable questions about why the jet he had insisted was the finest in the world wasn’t making the return journey.
At 3:42 p.m., just before stepping into a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump posted online that the new, Qatar-donated jet would be flying to an airbase in Britain to give troops there a chance to tour it.
“Everybody is so excited, and we thought that they should be the first,” he wrote, adding he would be taking the older jet “for old time’s sake.”
In fact, he would be taking neither. The plan concocted by his advisers and the Secret Service would rely on a carefully planned deception that has long been in the playbook for presidential safety.
“The U.S. Secret Service continuously analyzes a wide range of information to guide our protective operations in real time and across every location we secure,” Secret Service Communications Chief Anthony Guglielmi said. “In light of recent assassination attempts and a significant increase in threats against the President, we remain unyielding in our mission.”
The scheme required Trump to board the older Air Force One jet and quickly walk from the main doorway to another exit on the opposite side of the plane, where the white catering truck was waiting.
Turkish Airlines is well-known for its gourmet meals; members of cabin crew don chefs’ toques and white jackets to serve an elaborate spread of dips and mezze, all of which arrive to their planes inside the hydraulic trucks.
This time, however, the catering vehicle was empty, a person familiar with the matter said. US officials had worked earlier in the day on commandeering the truck, without specifying exactly why they needed it, the person said.
Inside the container, which had been cleaned out ahead of time, were Trump; his always-present executive assistant Natalie Harp; his onetime “body man” Walt Nauta, who now serves as director of Oval Office operations; and Dan Scavino, who runs the White House personnel office but has worked for Trump for decades. Secret Service agents were also present.
Once the group had been loaded in, a Secret Service agent in a suit rode in the cab next to the driver for the 162-second drive across the tarmac to the smaller C-32A plane.
It’s not clear how, exactly, the manifest for the catering container was devised. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also joined Trump onboard the C-32A for the flight to Mildenhall airbase in Britain.
Left behind on the larger plane were Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, along with many of Trump’s senior aides: top policy adviser Stephen Miller, communications director Steven Cheung, staff secretary Will Scharf, deputy national security adviser Michael Needham and a deputy chief of staff, Richard Walters.
Other staffers, including in the advance and press offices, also remained on the plane, many unaware Trump was not in his forward cabin and, in fact, wasn’t on board at all. They were told to keep their window shades down.
Former Secret Service agent and CNN contributor Jonathan Wackrow said it is not uncommon for the Secret Service to play a three-card monte-esque game when the president travels. “Decoys happen all the time with the president. If you think about every time he gets on a helicopter in Washington, DC, there are three identical helicopters that shell game constantly,” Wackrow said.
Trump this week insisted to reporters it was actually his plane — and not the decoy — that was most at danger departing Turkey, despite no one knowing he was aboard.
Yet there was at least one indication American officials believed both jets faced potential peril. Fighter jets were mustered to accompany both out of the country.