The CIA had "low confidence" in an Israeli intelligence claim that Iran was plotting to shoot down Air Force One as it left a NATO summit in Turkey last month, according to a new report — raising fresh questions about the dramatic, cloak-and-dagger plane swap that followed.

Israeli intelligence officials told their American counterparts that Tehran intended to use shoulder-fired missiles to target Trump's plane as it departed Ankara on July 8. But CIA analysts who reviewed the tip described it as "Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated," and rated confidence in the threat as low, U.S. officials told reporters.

Trump Was Moved by Catering Truck

Despite the agency's skepticism, the Secret Service treated the threat as credible enough to act on. Trump was quietly moved off Air Force One and onto a smaller military aircraft using a catering truck as cover, a maneuver first revealed publicly two days after it happened. One official defended the extraordinary precaution by noting the Secret Service has now had three near-misses protecting this president and "isn't taking any chances."

ISRAELI-DERIVED, NOT US-GENERATED, AND VIEWED AS LOW CONFIDENCE.

The new reporting doesn't resolve whether the underlying threat was real — only that the U.S. intelligence community itself was far less certain about it than the emergency response suggested. It also lands amid broader friction over how much weight Washington should give Israeli-sourced intelligence following disputed claims earlier this year about Iranian capabilities.

Trump administration officials have not disputed the substance of the report but have defended the decision to switch planes as a reasonable, low-cost precaution given the stakes. The White House has not said whether it independently verified the Mossad tip before ordering the switch.

What's next: Lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees are expected to seek a classified briefing on how the threat assessment was handled and why a low-confidence, foreign-sourced tip triggered such an elaborate security response.