In 2018, officials from the Obama administration met secretly with Iranian officials as part of a plan to undermine sitting President Trump efforts to isolate the regime with economic pressure to get them to dispense with their nuclear programs.

A newly released memo from the State Department shows that this “off-the-record” meeting was between a delegation of former US ambassadors and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City.

The memo was released due a lawsuit that was brought by The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) specifically to compel the State Department to come clean about their efforts during Trump’s administration, reports the The Washington Free Beacon.

John Kerry, who served as Secretary of State after Hillary Clinton vacated the post, was “reported to be working behind-the scenes with Iranian officials to salvage the 2015 nuclear accord,” the Free Beacon reports. This “shadow diplomacy” concerned “nuclear weapons, potential prisoner swaps, [the] Afghanistan withdrawal, and negotiations with the Taliban,” according to the ACLJ.

The memo shows that Obama officials were working directly in opposition to the Trump administration during Trump’s term in office, conducting meetings and pretending at an authority that they did not have.