Preparatory documents for participants in the summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have been found in the printer of an Anchorage hotel, according to NPR.
The documents appear to have been drafted by US government officials.
According to NPR, a total of eight pages were found Friday morning in the printer of the business center of the Captain Cook Hotel.
The hotel is located about a twenty-minute drive from the Elmendorf-Richardson military base, where Trump and Putin met.NPR has also posted the documents online.
They include a detailed schedule, a list of the meeting rooms used, and (redacted by NPR) contact phone numbers for the U.S. State Department. It is notable, however, that the documents still list 11:30 a.m. local time as the start time.
That time was moved forward by half an hour on the eve of the summit, suggesting that these are not the final versions of the documents.
The Russian and American participants in the meeting are also listed, along with a photo of each participant. It’s notable that the names of the Russian participants are also phonetically spelled out. For example, the American negotiators are supposed to pronounce Putin’s name as “POO-tihn.”
Finally, the documents also list the contents of the four-course menu: a salad, filet mignon, halibut and crème brûlée.
Jon Michaels, a law professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, called the discovery of the documents “further evidence of the government’s sloppiness and incompetence.” “You just don’t leave things in printers. It’s that simple.”
The White House denied to ABC News that any papers containing information about the summit had been left behind and called the NPR report “hilarious.”
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HEGSETH MADE THE COPIES, RIGHT? HAHAHAHA……INCOMPETENCE ALL OVER THE PLACE!
Instead of writing in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin, it should have read in order of putler the genocidal war criminal.
I red the lunch menu: Salade with Nothingburger………………………..
In Alaska , where a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin took place, documents with US State Department markings were found in the business center of one of the hotels on the morning of Friday, August 15.
NPR reports this . It is noted that the files found revealed previously unknown and potentially confidential details about the leaders’ meeting in Anchorage. A total of eight pages were found, which were likely accidentally left at the hotel by employees of the American administration. These documents contained the exact locations and times of the summit, as well as the phone numbers of US government employees.
The documents were found by guests at a four-star hotel 20 minutes from Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base in Anchorage, where the leaders of the United States and Russia were meeting. They were left behind from the hotel’s public printers. NPR reviewed photographs of the documents taken by one of the guests. The publication is not naming the person because he said he was “afraid of retaliation.”
The first page of the package of documents revealed the sequence of meetings for August 15, including the specific names of rooms at the Anchorage base where they were to take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a gift – a bald eagle statue.
Pages 2-5 listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. officials and 13 U.S. and Russian leaders. Pages 6 and 7, meanwhile, described a dinner “in Putin’s honor” that was apparently canceled. The plan was for the leaders to dine on filet mignon and Olympian halibut after a green salad. Dessert would have been crème brulee.
“According to the seating plan, Putin and Trump were to sit across from each other during the dinner. Trump was to be flanked by six officials: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles would sit to his right, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Special Envoy for Peacekeeping Steve Witkoff would sit to his left. Putin would sit next to his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and presidential aide for foreign policy Yuri Ushakov,” the article says.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly called the documents “a multi-page lunch menu.” She said leaving the information on a public printer was not a security breach. The State Department did not respond to requests for comment.