From CGI member oldmaninthedesert:

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Continuing with Kessler's fluff on the Secret Service...who wants to wager that the trip below involved some of his heroin dealing friends in Syria/Lebanon?

... AS PART OF an advance, the Secret Service reviews reports from the intelligence community about possible threats. In 1996, former president George H. W. Bush was planning to fly to Beirut, Lebanon. The itinerary called for him to land on Cyprus, then helicopter over to Lebanon.

"The CIA informed us there was a threat on the former president's life," says Lou Morales, an agent who was with Bush 41, as he is called, on the trip. "The informant knew the itinerary of the helicopter flight and the time it was to take off. In fact, he was part of the plot, which had been hatched by Hezbollah. They were going to shoot missiles to take the helicopter down."

The Secret Service informed Bush, who insisted he wanted to go to Beirut regardless of the risk. The Secret Service scrubbed the helicopter flight and instead drove him in a motorcade at ninety miles per hour from Damascus to Beirut. As with most thwarted plots against protectees, this one never appeared in the press.

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-3-in-presidents-secret.html