Global Courant
(Reuters) – The 37 count indictment against Donald Trump unveiled on Friday accused the former president of risking some of the best-kept US government secrets by storing classified documents in unsecured areas of his Florida resort.
The documents contained details of US nuclear weapons, spy satellites and the US military, according to the indictment. They are produced by the Pentagon and by US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, and others.
“The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could jeopardize the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military and human resources,” the indictment said.
Here are some of the documents cited in the indictment:
– A document marked TOP SECRET//(redacted)/(redacted)//ORCON/NOFORN which the indictment says involves “nuclear capabilities of a foreign country”.
ORCON means that the material in the document may not be distributed outside of the U.S. government department that prepared it without prior authorization.
– A document marked SECRET//FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA which, according to the indictment, related to ‘United States nuclear weapons’.
According to a Department of Energy training guide, the Formally Restricted Data or FRD classification is used for materials that have been downgraded from a higher classification and are “primarily related to the military use of nuclear weapons”.
“Formerly doesn’t mean unclassified,” says the guide.
Examples of FRD given in the guide include amounts of nuclear weapons in the US stockpile, warhead yields, and their locations.
– A document marked TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN//FISA which, according to the indictment, related to “military capabilities of a foreign country and the United States, with handwritten notes in black marker.”
Story continues
NOFORN means the document cannot be shared with a foreign government. FISA refers to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and means that the material comes from intercepted communications.
– Six top secret documents marked TK, which stands for Talent Keyhole, a classification for material related to US spy satellites.
The indictment says that these documents related to foreign military capabilities.
(Reporting by Jonathan Landay; editing by Daniel Wallis)
