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Sensitive Trump-Putin Summit Documents Abandoned on Alaska Hotel Printer

Eight pages of documents revealed meeting logistics, lunch plans, and a planned gift from Trump to Putin, exposing a security lapse at a high-profile international summit, NPR reported.

  • Three guests at Anchorage's Hotel Captain Cook discovered eight pages of documents left in a public printer detailing President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's August 15 summit near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
  • The documents originated from U.S. staff and revealed meeting times, precise room names, phone numbers of officials, and a planned American bald eagle desk statue gift for Putin.
  • Pages described the summit's planned lunch in honor of Putin, featuring a three-course meal with salad, a choice between filet mignon or halibut olympia, and crème brûlée dessert, though lunch was cancelled.
  • Law professor Jon Michaels condemned the discovery of the documents in the hotel printer as a clear indication of careless handling and poor preparation for an important meeting.
  • The document leak reflects continuing security breaches by Trump administration officials and underscores risks in handling sensitive diplomatic information during critical international talks.
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The documents were found by three guests of the Captain Cook Hotel - They included a schedule with specific meeting rooms, State Department contact persons with phone numbers, the menu, and instructions on how to pronounce the Russian president's name.

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Anchorage – It was supposed to be a top diplomatic meeting – but there was a shame even before the beginning.An eight-sided expression with strict trust...

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No official information has yet filtered out about the details of the Trump-Putine agreement. It must be said that their meeting did not go at all as planned. Documents from the White House detailing the unfolding were found, forgotten in a printer in Alaska. Among them the lunch menu between the two heads of state, which eventually never took place. Why? A White House spokesman has since declared that the abandonment of these documents was safe…

After the meeting between the Presidents of Russia and America, a dinner was planned in honour of Vladimir Putin, according to the records of the United States Department of State protocol, which was left in a printer in an Anchorage hotel studied by the United States National Public Radio (NPR).

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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Members of the American delegation allegedly left government documents detailing the meeting in a printer at a hotel in Alaska where they were staying during the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The eight pages allegedly listed meeting locations and times, politicians' phone numbers, dinner seating arrangements and a menu. The politicians were allegedly served crème brûlée for dessert during a lunch that was later apparently canc…

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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KCRW broke the news in on Thursday, October 11, 2018.
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