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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mary Papenfuss

USAID staff ordered to shred and torch records as Trump is named in emergency court motion

A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has been targeted for death by DOGE, has ordered remaining employees to shred or burn classified documents and personnel records.

An email Tuesday from the agency’s Acting Executive Secretary Erica Carr told employees to destroy the records, and thanked them for their “assistance in clearing our classified safes and personnel documents,” NBC News was the first to report.

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