New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- The elaborate security operation that moved President Donald Trump secretly out of Turkey last month, through a catering truck and onto a military aircraft while Air Force One flew as a decoy, was triggered by intelligence that the CIA told the administration it viewed as doubtful. The revelation, first reported Wednesday by The Washington Post, adds an unsettling dimension to an already extraordinary sequence of events: the president was hidden from his own press pool, senior cabinet officials were sent aboard a decoy aircraft without being told why, and the decision to treat the threat as real was made despite the CIA's explicit skepticism.

the intelligence was "Israeli-derived, not US-generated, and viewed as low...