Other records dealt with US nuclear programmes and potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack along with plans for retaliation, it said.
"The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the Untied States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources," according to the indictment.
"TRUMP HATER"
Trump is to appear in court in Miami at 3pm (3am, Singapore time) on Tuesday for the first hearing in the case.
According to US media, the case will initially be handled by Aileen Cannon, 42, a Trump-appointed judge who made rulings favourable to the former president during a court review of documents seized in an August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
A trial is not expected to begin for several months and there is nothing to prevent Trump from pursuing a second term in the White House while facing charges.
According to the indictment, Trump directed his aide Nauta to conceal boxes containing documents from the FBI and his own attorney and suggested to his lawyers at one point that they hide or destroy documents being sought by the authorities.
The indictment also recounted a conversation between Trump and one of his attorneys about the documents in which the former president reportedly said "wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here".
Trump responded to the indictment with a string of posts on his Truth Social platform, calling Smith, the special counsel, "deranged" and a "Trump hater".
"Under the Presidential Records Act, I'm allowed to do all this," Trump said. "There was no crime."
In a defiant video on Thursday, Trump also declared his innocence and framed the indictment as election interference by a Justice Department "weaponised" by President Joe Biden.
"They come after me because now we're leading in the polls again by a lot against Biden," Trump said.
Biden said on Friday that he would have no comment on the case and has had no contact with Attorney General Merrick Garland, who appointed Smith as special counsel to conduct the Trump probe.
"I have not spoken to him at all and I'm not going to speak with him," Biden told reporters.
Trump was already the first former or sitting president to be charged with a crime, indicted in New York in March in a case involving election-eve hush money payments to a porn star who said she had an affair with him.
Smith is also looking into whether Trump should face charges over the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol by his supporters.
And Georgia prosecutors are investigating whether Trump illegally attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome in the southern state.
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