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Protecting the President

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  • Former FBI Agent Tom Fuentes looking out over Tbilisi.
  • Former Secret Service agent Robert Rodriguez in Rabat, Morocco, the location of King Hassan II's funeral.
  • Widow and son of the Georgian Interior Ministry's counterintelligence Captain Zurab Kvlividze, who was killed in a gunfight with Vladimir Arutyunian.
  • David Nadibaidze, the police officer who picked up the grenade during the President G.W. Bush assassination attempt and took it to safety.
  • The Tbilisi skyline.
  • Former Secret Service Agent Danny Spriggs at site of the President Reagan assassination attempt in 1981.
  • A Georgian re-enactor of Vladimir Arutyunian set on the day of the 2005 assassination attempt.
  • A Georgian re-enactor of Vladimir Arutyunian set on the day of the 2005 assassination attempt.
  • Former FBI Agent Tom Fuentes and Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili.
  • Vladimir Arutyunian, would-be assassin of President George W. Bush in 2005.

  • Retired Agent

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    Former FBI Agent Tom Fuentes looking out over Tbilisi.

  • Morrocan Streets

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Aaron Matthews

    Former Secret Service agent Robert Rodriguez in Rabat, Morocco, the location of King Hassan II's funeral.

  • Grieving Family

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    Widow and son of the Georgian Interior Ministry's counterintelligence Captain Zurab Kvlividze, who was killed in a gunfight with Vladimir Arutyunian.

  • Saving the President

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    David Nadibaidze, the police officer who picked up the grenade during the President G.W. Bush assassination attempt and took it to safety.

  • Cloudy Day

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    The Tbilisi skyline.

  • Attempted Assassination Site

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Kyle Giddens

    Former Secret Service Agent Danny Spriggs at site of the President Reagan assassination attempt in 1981.

  • Grenade Attacker

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    A Georgian re-enactor of Vladimir Arutyunian set on the day of the 2005 assassination attempt.

  • Recreating the Plot

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    A Georgian re-enactor of Vladimir Arutyunian set on the day of the 2005 assassination attempt.

  • Meeting in Georgia

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    Former FBI Agent Tom Fuentes and Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili.

  • Assassination Plan

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels/ Partisan Pictures/ Andrew Baker

    Vladimir Arutyunian, would-be assassin of President George W. Bush in 2005.
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