Mar-a-Lago a magnet for spies, officials warn (2022)
Julian Borger in Washington
Wed 7 Sep 2022 14.25 EDT
Mar-a-Lago – the Palm Beach resort and residence where Donald Trump reportedly stored nuclear secrets among a trove of highly classified documents for 18 months since leaving the White House – is a magnet for foreign spies, former intelligence officials have warned.
The Washington Post reported that a document describing an unspecified foreign government’s defences, including its nuclear capabilities, was one of the ... papers Trump took ... from the White House when he left ... in January 2021.
There were also documents marked SAP, for Special-Access Programmes, which are often about US intelligence operations and whose circulation is severely restricted ...
Potentially most disturbing of all, there were papers stamped HCS, Humint Control Systems, involving human intelligence gathered from agents in enemy countries, whose lives would be in danger if their identities were compromised ...
... The home of a former president with a history of being enthralled by foreign autocrats, distrustful of US security services, and boastful about his knowledge of secrets, is an obvious foreign intelligence target ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/mar-a-lago-trump-nuclear-documents-spies
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