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Government papers found in Alaskan hotel at Trump-Putin summit

17-08-2025 09:10 AM

Pictures of two documents about the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska

Ammon News - A dossier containing details about timings and locations for the Alaska summit was reportedly found by hotel guests on a printer hours before Donald Trump greeted Vladimir Putin.

The papers, which appeared to have been prepared by US state department staff, included potentially sensitive information about the high-stakes talks.

The eight-page document was found at around 9am on Friday by three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, located around 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson base in Anchorage, according to NPR.

The document included details of the Aug 15 schedule, including specific names of the rooms inside the Anchorage base where each meeting would take place.

A seating plan as well as information about Mr Trump planning to give Putin a ceremonial present of an “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue” were also included in the documents, the outlet reported.

The document states it was produced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol. It is not known who left the schedule on the printer, but Mr Trump’s protocol chief is Monica Crowley, a former Fox News analyst.

The papers reportedly list the names and phone numbers of three US staff members as well as the names of 13 US and Russian state leaders.

It also included phonetic pointers for how to pronounce the names of the Russians expected at the summit, including “Mr President POO-tihn”.

The dossier also contained details about Friday’s planned luncheon, which did not go ahead.

According to the document, the two world leaders would have sat opposite one another, flanked by their respective delegations.

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, was supposed to sit next to Mr Trump, on his right, with Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff.

Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, and special envoy Steve Witkoff would have sat to Mr Trump’s left.

Anna Kelly, the White House deputy press secretary, denied that leaving the papers, which she described as a “multi-age lunch menu”, in public did not amount to a security breach.

Tommy Pigott, the principal deputy spokesman for the state department, told The Telegraph: “Instead of covering the historic steps towards peace achieved at Friday’s summit, NPR is trying to make a story out of a lunch menu. Ridiculous.” The Telegraph




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