The secret documents were last seen in the White House during the final days of Donald Trump's presidency.
US intelligence agencies try unsuccessfully find a binder containing classified information about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, when Donald Trump won.
This is stated in the CNN investigation.
As the publication reports, citing its own sources, the disappearance of the documents caused such great concern that last year intelligence officials informed the leaders of the relevant committee of the US Senate about the missing materials and the government's efforts to return them.
What was in the secret documents
Secret documents are a file of papers 25 centimeters thick. Here was “raw” intelligence data collected by the United States and its NATO allies about Russian agents.
The secret documents spoke, in particular, about the sources and methods of influence of the Russian Federation, which gave American intelligence has reason to talk about Russia attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections in favor of Trump.
This information was so secret that American congressmen and their aides with state secret clearance could only get acquainted with it at CIA headquarters. There they were kept in a locked safe.
How secret documents ended up in the White House
In the last days of his presidency, Donald Trump ordered secret documents to be brought to the White House, intending to declassify some of them and prove that in fact the Russian intervention was directed against him and had no real basis.
Work on the documents was carried out under the supervision of then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
The White House created several copies of classified documents with redacted data. They were planned to be distributed among Republicans in Congress and right-wing journalists. However, the matter did not come to this – the copies were seized for additional approval. The information has not yet been fully disclosed.
Meanwhile, the original documents have disappeared, and US intelligence agencies still do not know where he is.
Who is suspected
According to CNN, according to one version, the secret documents could have ended up in the possession of the mentioned Meadows. But he categorically denies this.
No classified materials were found during a search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence during an investigation into the former US President's mishandling of documents.
Recall that according to the results of a new survey, US President Joe Biden's political positions are at their weakest point during the entire period of his presidency. Voters give him the lowest job performance ratings and favor Donald Trump for the first time in the 2024 presidential race.
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