When then-US President Bill Clinton arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, in March 2000, a decoy aircraft bearing Air Force One markings landed in view of the media, followed by a Secret Service agent resembling Clinton. An unmarked aircraft then landed, carrying the president, who disembarked from it.

In a twist of presidential travel, Donald Trump allegedly used a catering truck for a clandestine flight from Turkey to Britain, echoing Bill Clinton's 2000 strategy of flying in…

A quarter-century before President Trump's secret flight from Turkey, Clinton staged a similar ruse for a flight to Pakistan. I had a first-hand view.