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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Binder of classified material on Russia reportedly went missing in final Trump days

Donald Trump during a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018.
Donald Trump during a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

A 10in-thick binder containing nearly 3,000 pages of highly classified material related to the investigation of Russian election interference as well as links between Moscow and Donald Trump went missing in the final days of his presidency, CNN and the New York Times reported.

CNN said the disappearance raised alarms in the American intelligence community because “some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed”.

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