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From the staff present, to the gifts, the seating arrangement and the lunch menu, secret documents from the Alaska summit were forgotten in a hotel printer...
Several documents with U.S. State Department insignia, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaska hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the August 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, which appear to have been produced by American staff and accidentally left behind, listed the exact locations and times of meetings, as well as the phone numbers of US government employees.
Around 9 a.m. Friday, three guests at the Captain Cook Hotel, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia were gathering, found the documents left on one of the hotel's public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, whom NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said he feared retaliation.
The first page listed the meeting schedule, including the specific names of the rooms inside the Anchorage base where the talks would take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial gift.
" POTUS for President Putin, a tabletop statue of the American bald eagle ," it says.
On Saturday, White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the documents as a “multi-page lunch menu” and suggested that leaving the information on a public printer did not constitute a security breach. The U.S. State Department did not respond to requests for comment.
Pages 2 through 5 of the documents listed the names and phone numbers of three American staff members, as well as the names of 13 American and Russian heads of state. The list provided interpreters for all Russian officials expected at the summit, including "Mr. President POO-tihn."
Pages 6 and 7 of the package described how lunch would be served at the summit and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that the lunch would be held " in honor of His Excellency Vladimir Putin ."
A seating chart shows that Putin and Trump were to sit across from each other during the luncheon. Trump would be accompanied by six officials: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to his right, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff to his left. Putin would sit immediately next to his Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and his Assistant to the President for Foreign Policy, Yuri Ushakov .
During Friday's summit, lunch was apparently canceled. But documents showed it was supposed to be a simple three-course meal. After a green salad, the world leaders were to eat filet mignon and Olympia sauce. Crème brûlée was to be served for dessert.
Jon Michaels, a UCLA law professor who lectures on national security, said the documents found on the Alaskan hotel printer reveal a lack of professional judgment in preparing for a high-stakes meeting.
" It seems to me like further evidence of the administration's carelessness and incompetence. You just don't leave things in the printers. It's that simple ," Michaels said.
The documents are the latest in a series of security breaches by Trump administration officials. Earlier this week, members of a law enforcement chat group that included members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added a random person to a conversation about an ongoing search for a convicted attempted murderer. In March, U.S. national security leaders accidentally included a journalist in a chat group about impending military strikes in Yemen. /Adapted from NPR
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