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They used WHAT to hide the President? | Ep. 10

John Kiriakou · 2026-08-13 · 47:00

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[00:00] Hello from Athens, Greece, where it is now 4:36 p.m. Uh, I am in an area of Athens that I just love. It's called Sidi. When I was living here between 1998 and 2000, CD was almost a no-go area. It was largely abandoned, abandoned warehouses, mostly light industrial. But then around 2000, artists began moving in and opening small galleries or small workshops. And then once the

[00:31] artists came, the cafes and the restaurants came and then the young people came. And now it is the place to be for nightife and restaurants and clubs. And you are a stones throw from the beautiful historic Parthonon which you can see behind me. The Acropolis which is the the hill that it sits on right in the heart of everything. Well folks as we speak the YouTube channel is about to hit 250,000

[01:04] subscribers. When we started I had high hopes for this channel. I really did. But I had no idea that we would hit this number so quickly. It's ridiculous. I cannot thank you enough for commenting, for subscribing, for telling your friends. We're improving every week. I'm really proud of this show, but we're improving thanks to the notes that you guys leave. And I can't wait to keep bringing you the show because we are just getting started to tell you the truth. And I don't want to I don't want to spill the beans, but we have some big

[01:36] plans for next year when we're going to be, I think, big enough, hefty enough that we can start bringing on some A-list guests to uh to answer some tough questions. And since we're in Athens, I thought that we'd talk about a side of this city that most tourists never hear about, and that is terrorism, assassinations, terrorist groups, anarchism, spy wars, and a relationship between American and Greek intelligence that has at times been just an absolute

[02:08] mess. I'll tell you some of those stories later on in the show, but first we have some genuinely 007 style intrigue involving the current president of the United States, Donald Trump. Remember this strange story from a few weeks ago? President Trump was leaving the NATO summit in Turkey headed for the UK when suddenly he announced that he wasn't going to fly on his shiny new guty gifted Air Force 747. Well, instead Trump said that he was

[02:39] switching back to the old Air Force One. He said, "For old time's sake." Nobody believed that, but we didn't have the story until now because this this was happening in the middle of a war with Iran. Everybody just assumed there was some sort of a threat and just to be on the safe side, uh, the switch was made. There were already reports that the president's new cuttery jet didn't yet have all of the defensive uh communications capabilities of the old Air Force One. When reporters

[03:11] raised those questions, the White House just went ballistic. White House communications director Steven Chung attacked reporter uh Carol Lenig saying this quote, "Carol Lenig is a liar and this article is complete fake news. She has no idea what she's talking about." unquote. That's not very nice. Well, it turns out that the truth was considerably crazier than what was being reported at the time. And now we have video of the

[03:41] transfer. According to new reporting from the Washington Post, US officials were worried about what they called a credible Iranian threat against Trump or against his aircraft. So, they didn't just switch Trump's plane. They used an airport catering truck to secretly shuffle Trump onto a smaller plane after he boarded Air Force One in view of the television cameras. We're going to break this down. Let's look at this this uh video.

[04:15] >> It sounds like a scene from a movie. President Donald Trump was secretly moved off of Air Force One in an airport catering truck and transported to a different plane without the world knowing. The Washington Post broke the story Monday night, reporting that the ruse happened after the NATO summit in Turkey. Photos released Tuesday from the press pool traveling with the president that day show three US government planes on the tarmac in Ankura, Turkey. the new Air Force One that Qatar gifted to the president, a legacy Air Force One that

[04:45] has flown presidents for decades, and a smaller jet in the back that apparently took center stage. The Post reports that in Ankura, Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras. He was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane, an Air Force C32A, via an airport catering truck. The New York Times later reported that after Mr. Trump arrived in Britain, he was secretly moved back to the older version of Air Force One. He then disembarked in view of reporters and walked across the tarmac to the

[05:16] plane donated by Qatar, which he flew to Washington. Security officials reportedly thought the secret plane change was necessary because of a potential threat against the president by Iran. The traveling press pool was not told about the deception, meaning they incorrectly thought the president was on the old Air Force One with them. In this particular case, it sure looks like the press uh White House staffers, the military members on board the plane uh were potentially sitting ducks in a case like this. >> After the president boarded the Qatari Air Force One in Britain later that

[05:48] night, he was asked about concerns over Iranian threats. >> I'm number one on their list before you, but if I go, you go. >> It's not the first time a president was covertly transported, though it's unusual that the traveling press pool was not clued in. In the year 2000, President Clinton was traveling between India and Pakistan and they actually put him on a an unmarked plane uh to go between those two countries. This incident is putting renewed focus on security concerns surrounding the new

[06:18] Air Force One gifted by Qatar. Had that plane been fully secured, this deception might not have been necessary. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Reporting at the White House, Taylor's Spectrum News. Yeah, boy. Oh boy, there's a lot to unpack there. So, Trump eventually did move back to Air Force One. It's not clear how he moved from the C32A to the old Air Force One after landing, but he then got back aboard Air Force One to

[06:48] take questions from journalists for 15 minutes, not acknowledging that that change took place. Now, before we we go on to another clip, I want to say that one of the things that Trump did with that kind of smart ale comment was he confirmed that the reporters that were on the plane were sitting ducks. He got off the plane and went on to the other plane to save himself. He didn't give a about the about the reporters who were all on the plane thinking that Trump was at the front of

[07:20] it and just not taking questions. Uh reporters in Washington are talking about this a lot today and universally they're angry. They're angry because the president didn't show any concern for their lives or their safety. Now another another issue here is um was this really legitimate intelligence? What we've learned and we learned this from the Turks. We're going to get to this in a minute is that the intelligence came from the Israelis. Well, of course it

[07:50] came from the Israelis, but remember other credible intelligence that the Israelis gave us were immediately after we started bombing Iran, they said that there were Iranian terrorist cells in every major city across the United States. Okay. So, where where are the arrests? We have not seen one single arrest of a an Iranian terrorist anywhere in the United States.

[08:21] Did they just make it up? I mean, you might recall they're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. That was made up. So were these terrorist cells all across America. Never existed. So, did the Israelis tell the White House that there was a credible threat against the president's life just to make Trump feel indebted to them for saving him? I don't know. I'm speculating. This is the report from the Turks.

[08:51] Turkey suspects Israel fabricated Trump Air Force One assassination plot to derail US Iran deal. Well, you know, one of the interesting things is that literally nobody is reporting that the CIA had developed the same information or that NSA had developed the same information or MI6 or GCHQ or the Australians or the French or the Saudis or the Amiradis. Nobody else

[09:22] was able to develop this information. Only the Israelis. So, we're supposed to believe that either they got very, very lucky or they are so good that they beat the pants off of every other intelligence service in the world and they single-handedly serve to protect the president of the United States. I'll let you decide. Well, another issue that we have here is the plane footage. I thought you would get a kick out of seeing something like

[09:53] this. JB, can you run this uh this clip? So, here's the president going on the new Air Force One, and he just disappears inside it just like he normally would. Now, what you see down there is a catering truck. There's an elevator on the other side of Air Force One where the catering truck can drive up to the elevator, load the food onto it, it goes up into the actual body of the plane, and everybody gets their meals for the trip and their drinks and

[10:23] coffee and what have you. But in this case, the president was hiding inside the catering truck and then the catering truck took him to the smaller jet in between the new Air Force One and the old Air Force One, loaded him onto the smaller jet. the media gets on the the new Air Force One, which is apparently the one that was under threat from the Iranians and uh and then everybody flew to the UK.

[10:55] Well, once they get to the UK, Trump gets off the smaller jet, secretly gets back on Air Force One, flies to Andrews Air Force Base, and everybody lives happily ever after. And we're only learning this now. So, the bottom line is we're just going to have to take the Israelis word for it because we're never going to know if there really was a uh a threat against the president or not. What if the way money works is about to change? Not

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[12:27] your free copy at johnlovesgold.com. That's johnlovesgold.com or call 1888gld053. This whole incident got me wondering about other historic escapes and there were a couple that I knew about. In 1861, this is one of my favorite ones. This was a legitimate plot. In 1861, detectives uncovered the Pinkertons, by the way. Pinkerton detectives uncovered

[12:57] a plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln as his train was passing through Baltimore. He was on his way to Washington to take the oath of office. This was March of 1861. So, get this. In Baltimore, he received 2% of the vote. Baltimore, even though Maryland was a southern state, but it did not it did not secede from the Union. It did not join the Confederacy. He just wanted to stay out of it. But Maryland Marylanders hated

[13:28] Abraham Lincoln. He got 2% of the vote in Baltimore. Telegraph wires were cut and the future president slipped through Baltimore overnight wearing a softfelt hat and a shawl. Detective Kate Warner repeat reportedly posed as as Lincoln's sister while Lincoln hid behind in a sleeping car. He made it safely to Washington. He took the oath of office and then got roasted

[13:58] by the press for sneaking into town. Universally, the media in 1861 called Abraham Lincoln a coward because he wouldn't, you know, face his assassins like a man. Can you imagine? 200 years before that, King Charles II in 1651 famously climbed and hid inside an oak tree after losing the Battle of Worcester. He successfully hid there for

[14:28] a day and then he went on the run for six weeks so as not to be caught and probably executed. Fidel Castro survived decades of assassination attempts. Some that sound like like rejected Austin Power scenes. Seriously. Poison pills, exploding seashells, exploding cigars, a contaminated skin diving suit. Ridiculous. And then there's the closest historical comparison to what Trump just did. And amazingly, we only learned

[15:01] about this yesterday. Bill Clinton pulled a similar pain uh plane switch maneuver in 2000 during a secret trip to Pakistan. But there was one big difference. The White House told journalists what was happening while it was happening. White House reporter for USA Today, Susan Page, revealed that she was briefed by White House security officials about the threat on the president, which put her own life in danger. as far as why she revealed the story now, she said, quote, "I haven't

[15:33] spoken about this episode before, but because of the off thereord ground rules of that discussion, and since more than a quarter century has passed, and since the roose became evident as soon as President Clinton disembarked in Pakistan, I think it's okay for me to relay it now." Well, this brings us to the part of Trump's operation that has the White House press corps furious. I mentioned it a moment ago because while Trump was secretly being driven across the airport in a catering truck, the journalists

[16:04] traveling with him were left just sitting on the decoy plane. They weren't told that Trump had escaped in the catering truck. They weren't told that there was another aircraft taking off. They weren't even told, "Hey, listen. Uh, we're having some engine trouble or comm's trouble. you might want to just take a United Airlines flight back or whatever. The White House could have done that. They weren't even told that they might be participating in a

[16:34] presidential security operation. The only clue that something unusual was happening. The Secret Service suddenly ordered everybody on the plane to close their window shades. You can see in this photo, the window shades were closed on Air Force One. reporters had no idea why. The White House pool reporter just said it was an order. They were ordered to close the shades. He said, quote, "At one point, a photographer seated behind me opened his shade and was quickly instructed to

[17:06] close it again." We asked a wrangler why, and they only said it was a request from the Secret Service." unquote. Well, listen to what the president said after he snuck back on board Air Force One and then spoke with reporters >> of any credible threat by Iran against Air Force One. >> I have a threat all the time. I'm number one on their list before you. But if I go, you go. >> Right. >> But was there perhaps perhaps someday you want to change professions?

[17:37] I'll tell you that is that is cold-hearted, mean-spirited. And as I said, it's the talk of Washington today among the press corps. And there's one additional wrinkle to this story. You might be wondering about the details of this alleged plot to kill the president. This is something I I mentioned a few minutes ago and how credible or incredible the information was. The aircraft switch happened in Turkey during the NATO summit after intelligence on the

[18:07] assassination attempt came from Israel and Turkish officials suspect the Israeli intelligence report was just a ruse to undermine negotiations with Tehran as reported in the Middle East eye. The story says, quote, "During his meeting with President, Turkish President Reep Erdogan, Trump repeatedly said that the war with Iran had ended and expressed hope about the negotiations." A source who attended the meeting told Middle East eye. Turkish officials now say they believe the

[18:37] Israeli intelligence report was probably a roose by Netanyahu's government to portray itself as protecting Trump, derail negotiations with Iran, and undermine Trump's apparently close relationship with Erdogan," unquote. I think that's probably true. You know, if I were to rate this escape on a scale of 1 to 10, it's got to be a 10. It worked. Nobody had any idea. It only came out later when somebody finally started talking.

[19:09] I do not believe that there was a credible threat on the president's life. The Israelis do things like this to us all the time. It's it's a manipulation tactic. And let me tell you a little bit about this guttery 747. I've mentioned in past podcasts that I have friends in five of the six Persian Gulf royal families and I stay in close touch with with most of them. When the cuties decided to gift

[19:42] this 747, it came in reaction to President Trump asking them, "Will you give me a free Boeing 747?" They were offended. according to this royal family member. But Arab culture is such that you can't deny a request for hospitality. Right now, most people ask for a glass of water or a cup of tea, not a 747. But the the gutteries couldn't say no to the request. But they

[20:13] were so offended that the president would come right out and ask for a free 747 that when they finally turned it over to the US government, they made an announcement that it was a gift from the people of Qatar to the people of the United States, that it was not a gift to Donald Trump. Well, the president oneuped them a couple of weeks ago by announcing that when he completes his term, he's taking the 747 and parking it at what will be the Donald Trump Presidential Library and it'll be on

[20:43] display there. So, he will be the only president to uh to ride in it. And let me tell you my own story. In November 1999, Bill Clinton came here to Athens. When a president comes to a country that you are assigned to, it doesn't matter if you are CIA or State Department or Commerce Department or agriculture department. They don't care who you work for. Everybody has to pitch in and help.

[21:16] Ambassador Nicholas Burns, whom I have always disliked and disrespected, on this one occasion did the right thing. He put all the jobs that needed to be done into a hat. And we all took turns picking our job out of a hat. I hit the lottery. And the job that I picked out of the hat was to be the notetaker in President Clinton's meeting with the Greek prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister. I've told that story many times, but

[21:48] here's a side to that story I've never told. When the meeting was done, President Clinton went to the basement from the top floor to the basement of the Intercontinental Hotel about two miles that way and he gave a rockous speech, wildly popular speech to the Greek American Business Women's Association. From that speech, he then went to Athens airport, the old airport at Elinikon,

[22:19] and flew back to Washington. I went back to the embassy and we had something called a hot wash, which is an afteraction report. And that's when everybody gets together and you talk about absolutely every detail of the visit. What went right, what went wrong, what lessons learned. And the ambassador says to everybody when he calls us all together, "Do you want to hear something crazy?" He said, "Just as the plane is taking off, the

[22:50] telephone inside Air Force One rang and it was a random bomb threat. Someone here in Greece got the top secret phone number for the Air Force One telephone. Not to say Bill Clinton answered the phone. He didn't answer the phone. Some low-level aid answered the phone. But it was a bomb threat to blow up Air Force One. So, did the Israelis lie? Probably.

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[24:25] gone. So, if you're serious about your accuracy, stop guessing. Go to mcgac.com/johore jhn b o a r right now. Lock yours in before they sell out. I want to talk a little bit more about grease tube. For those of you who watch the show regularly or who know me personally, I love Greece almost more than any other place on Earth. I've been coming here

[24:56] since I was 20 years old, right? 19 or 20, whatever. And I just love the place. I I hope that someday I can buy a little apartment right here in this neighborhood and uh and spend a few months a year maybe writing books on a balcony overlooking the the beautiful Parthonon. I served here with the CIA from 1998 to 2000.

[25:26] It was the most dangerous tour I ever had in my career. And I served in Pakistan. I served in Afghanistan. I served in Iraq. And I never feared for my safety like I feared for it right here in Greece. When I was serving in Greece, the US government spent more money on security than it spent anywhere else on the planet, including Beirut, which was exploding at the time. And

[25:56] that is because of two groups. Neither group exists any longer. One, the more lethal of the two was called Revolutionary Organization 17 November, the Gano Envir. The other one was called Popular Revolutionary Struggle. 17 November carried out 27 assassinations between December 23rd, 1975 and April of 2000. The last assa assassination was of my next door neighbor, Brigadier General

[26:28] Steven Saunders. He was the British defense attaches. I've told this story many times, but uh a couple of months after Steven was assassinated, 17 November mailed a manifesto to a left-wing newspaper. This is something they usually did. They would either drop a manifesto at the site of the hit or leave it in a garbage can, call a leftist newspaper and tell them where to find it, or mail it to the newspaper. And usually they did it within a day or two of the hit. In the case of Steven's assassination,

[27:00] they waited months. They waited until August of uh of 2000. And they said in this manifesto, Megaloascopos, we saw the big spy, but he was driving an armored car and we knew he was armed. So, we elected to carry out the revolutionary sentence on the war criminal Saunders. Now, Steve was not a war criminal. He had served in the British Army in Northern Ireland and in

[27:30] Yugoslavia, but he was a paper pusher. He was not a war criminal. Um, but they had intended to kill me that day and he was a softer target. He lived about 20 minutes after they shot him. They blew his right hand completely off at the wrist. They shot him in the chest with the same 45 that they used to carry out most of their assassinations. It was called the Welch 45 because it was used to kill CIA station chief

[28:01] Richard Welch on December 23rd, 1975. They also killed uh two US defense ataches and and a hapless low-level African-American Air Force tech sergeant who was doing his laundry in the in the basement laundry room of his apartment building. They um self-destructed in uh early 2000. One of the 17 November bombers was carrying a bomb in a brown paper bag in Pereus, the port city of Athens.

[28:33] He was going to use it to blow up the car of a wealthy Greek ship owner. Instead, the bomb went off in his hands, blew his hands completely off, blew his right eye out, and he was bleeding to death. A policeman across the street heard the explosion. He ran over, tried to stench the the flow of the blood and the bomber confessed that he was 17 November's bomber and that his two brothers were among the assassins. And he named all the members of the

[29:04] organization and he gave the policeman the address of the safe house where all the weapons and the explosives were killed and then he lived. The cop actually saved his life. So the Greek counterterrorism police used that information to break the group within a day. The primary assassin, the Mitis Ku Fontinas, who was known as the Black Hand because everything he touched died, uh, briefly escaped. He was found, of all places, on a nudist beach on one of

[29:35] the Greek islands and finally captured there. Most of the members of 17 November have been released from prison. The primary assassins, five of them are still in prison. The founder of the group was released from prison on parole a month ago for good behavior. And there was such an uproar and an outcry that the Supreme Court reversed his release and he went back to prison. Greece is no longer dangerous like that.

[30:06] In fact, there's very little crime here of any kind. And I hate to even say this, but much of the crime comes from undocumented migrants and refugees who are, you know, stealing to eat to survive. That's a whole different issue we can talk about at some future time. There are still terrorist incidents, but they're not necessarily not necessarily carried out by terrorist groups so much as anarchist groups that just literally want to throw

[30:37] a grenade into the middle of the room and see what happens. Those of us who lived in Greece in the '9s or in 2000 used to say that that Athens was a wannabe ro Rome. that Athens was Rome 20 or 30 years earlier. Dirty, rundown, not advanced. Now Rome wishes it was Athens. That's how great it is. Greece doesn't have those kinds of problems anymore. And

[31:09] that is a very very good thing. Um I'll I'll add one more little detail to my story and I say this in my first book. One of the things that I'll never forgive myself for, I was shocked when I saw that manifesto that day. Shocked because not only was I particularly good at surveillance and surveillance detection, I actually became a surveillance and surveillance detection instructor at the CIA. And I

[31:42] wrote a book called The CIA Insiders Guide to Surveillance and Surveillance Detection. And for years, for years, I've talked about how in the world they found me, and I never noticed them. The conclusion we came to was that Steven was a media He He never saw a camera that he didn't want to jump right in front of and give a big toothy, you know, interview. And then they noticed my license plate and noticed that it was an American embassy license plate. And when they

[38:36] for all legislation that I've introduced and champion and will continue to fight for as governor. >> Okay, I'm for just about all those things. But what she was referring to in the beginning was she made statements in the past saying that she wanted to either cancel Thanksgiving or change the name of Thanksgiving. Almost nobody in America wants to do that. And so attack ads came out uh in in this

[39:08] race against her saying she is so off the charts when it comes to personal ideology that she wants to cancel Thanksgiving. That's why she started off by saying, "I have lots of great Thanksgivings. I'm not going to cancel Thanksgiving." Well, then why'd you say you're going to cancel Thanksgiving if you're not. What a stupid thing to say. Another thing, and one of our producers, JB and I were talking about this before we started filming, was I'm sure many of you have seen this what I consider to be an absolutely hilarious

[39:40] video on YouTube of the it's like the 2020 or 2022 DSA convention in Los Angeles. If you if you go into YouTube and type that in, it'll pop up. they couldn't get any work done because somebody's saying you use the wrong pronouns or um people please stop the cross talk. I have an auditory problem and I'm beginning to freak out.

[40:11] Come on, that's not America. Most Americans don't want candidates that are going to scream at us about pronouns. I will not call anybody Z or Zur. Sorry, not going to happen. And I consider myself to be progressive. But anyway, this may be just a little bit too much for many Americans. And I'm wondering if that's what we saw in this Wisconsin race. There was another significant upset on uh on Tuesday. And this is in

[40:44] Connecticut's first congressional district. Representative John Larson has been in Congress for 28 years and he lost to an upstart named Luke Bronin. Now, you may you may remember Congressman Larson from quite an unfortunate thing that happened. And you see here on this chart, he got clobbered 54.4 to 32.8. You've been in Congress for 28 years and you get less than 33%.

[41:16] There's something terribly wrong. But what I want to show you too here is look, there were fewer than 48,000 votes cast. Fewer than 48,000 votes cast. You know how many people are in that congressional district? 1.2 million people. Yeah. And 38,000 bothered to go to the polls and vote. So, Democrats should be warned. And I say this every two years because this seems to be the Democrats election

[41:47] theory. Vote for me because I'm not the other guy. Well, you have to stand for something. And if you don't stand for anything, people aren't going to go to the polls to vote for you. I think that's what we saw in this case. I wanted to show you this this clip, too, of Congressman Larson. It might ring a ring a bell. Don't worry, no one on the Republican side in the House and Senate who control both the House and Senate is going to

[42:17] speak up and challenge us. But we need to pro protect Americans privacy and their social security.

[42:57] For 40% of all Americans, Social Security is the basis for their retirement and their retirement savings. And uh >> let's stop it there. JB, the conventional wisdom at the time, of course, was that he was having a stroke.

[43:29] His office said at the time that no, he was a little dehydrated. He hadn't slept very well the night before. But the thing is, when you're in your 70s or 80s or in some cases 90s, maybe it's time to step aside and let the younger generation come in and do their thing. Well, the voters of Connecticut's first district made that decision for him yesterday. There was also news on the Republican side. I don't know why I'm so

[44:02] interested in the South Carolina Senate race. My feelings about Lindsey Graham are well known. his sister Darlene um was coronated in this uh in this situation only because she happened to be Lindsey Graham's sister. So now she's Senator Darlene Graham and there are other Republicans, qualified Republicans in South Carolina saying not so fast, she's not qualified to be a

[44:35] United States senator. Well, the race was Tuesday and she came in first. That's not saying much. There were a whole bunch of people running and she only ended up with 32.7%. So now she's going to run against Ralph Norman in a runoff. The runoff will come, I don't remember the date, but it's coming soon. It's going to be like six weeks from now. Uh I don't think she's a shoein. I don't

[45:05] think people respect her. And I think that most South Carolinians don't have any idea who the heck she is other than Lindsey Graham's sister. And I'll tell you what, Lindsey Graham just died what, like the other day, and the Defense Department already named a military base after him called Joint Base Lindsey Graham. Nice, huh? So, listen. In politics so far, 10 10 US

[45:39] House members have lost their primaries. 10. That is the most since 1970. You remember that mantra from the the famous film Network? I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore. That's what the American voters are saying. So, until next time. Actually, you know what? I'll tell you. Our next episode I am going to film from Cairo, Egypt. And

[46:11] I hope I have a good view to show you from there. Thanks for joining us. Please find my other podcast. It's called John Kuryaku's Deadrop. It's on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Uh we're also on X, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on Instagram, and pretty much everywhere else. Thanks again for helping us by liking, subscribing, commenting, making recommendations. It really means a lot to me.