U.S. State Department documents containing sensitive government information were discovered on a public printer at an Alaska hotel, two hours before a high-stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/a><\/p>\n Eight pages \u2014\u00a0containing a schedule, several phone numbers of government employees, and a luncheon menu \u2014 were found in a public hotel printer at Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, a 20-minute drive from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson where the two world leaders met Friday to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n Three guests staying at Hotel Captain Cook found the pages around 9 a.m. Friday, two hours before the summit began, according to NPR.<\/a> It\u2019s not clear who left the papers but seven of the pages were \u201cproduced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol,\u201d according to images obtained by NPR, which is part of the State Department. <\/p>\n The hotel, which has 550 rooms, declined to comment on where the printers were located.<\/p>\n Tommy Pigott, the State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson, told The Independent in a statement: \u201cInstead of covering the historic steps towards peace achieved at Friday\u2019s summit, NPR is trying to make a story out of a lunch menu. Ridiculous.”<\/p>\n A White House spokesperson told NPR that abandoning the documents in a public printer was not considered a security breach. The Independent has also contacted the White House about the incident, who was responsible for handling the documents, and whether it is considered a security breach. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n State Department papers were left in a public printer at an Alaska hotel, near the military base where the Trump-Putin summit was held, revealing details about the high stakes meeting (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n The first five pages contain the sequence of the day\u2019s events, including the participants, locations, and times. Below the names of Putin and his Russian aides sits a pronunciation for each name. Under the Russian president\u2019s name, the file suggests: \u201cPOO-tihn.”<\/p>\n The pages also contained phone numbers of government employees and a gift that Trump planned to give Putin, described as \u201cAmerican Bald Eagle Desk Statue.\u201d<\/p>\n The sixth page showed a lunch seating chart. The two world leaders were seated at the center of the table, flanked on both sides by their respective officials, six for Trump and five for Putin. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chief of Protocol of the United States Monica Crowley after the Russian leader met with U.S. President Donald Trump (AP)<\/p>\n The seating chart showed Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Chief Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff. Putin\u2019s group would include his Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, his Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, and Minister of Defense Andrey Belousov.<\/p>\n The seventh page revealed the menu for lunch, which ended up being cancelled Friday. The first course would have offered a green salad with champagne vinaigrette dressing and sourdough bread with rosemary lemon butter. For the main course, there would\u2019ve been a choice of either filet mignon with brandy peppercorn sauce or halibut Olympia. Buttery whipped potatoes and roasted asparagus were intended to be offered as sides while the planned dessert was cr\u00e9me brul\u00e9 with ice cream, the documents revealed.<\/p>\n The last document showed what appeared to be a stylized copy of the menu. At the top read: “Luncheon in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”<\/p>\n Speaking to NPR, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly brushed off the discovery as a “multi-page lunch menu” and suggested leaving the documents on a public printer was not a security breach.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Trump and Putin met at the Alaska military base on Friday afternoon to discuss an end to the war, more than three years after Russia\u2019s invasion. The leaders announced \u201cgreat progress\u201d had been made, but they still did not reach any kind of plan to end the war. (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n The Trump administration has had several high-profile security breaches in its early months. In March, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent sensitive information<\/a> about a planned U.S. military strike <\/a>in Yemen to senior officials and a journalist from The Atlantic<\/a> on the messaging platform, Signal. The incident, dubbed \u201cSignalgate,\u201d <\/a>led to the ousting of Mike Waltz, Trump\u2019s national security adviser<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other lawmakers and security experts lambasted the administration over the latest incident in Alaska. <\/p>\n \u201cHow many more headlines are we going to read about INCOMPETENT security breaches by the Trump Admin???\u201d Florida Democratic Congressman Darren Soto posted<\/a> on X Saturday.<\/p>\n Jon Michaels, a UCLA law professor who specializes in national security law, told NPR the incident \u201cstrikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration.”<\/p>\n “You just don’t leave things in printers. It’s that simple,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n Trump and Putin met at the Alaska military base on Friday afternoon to discuss an end to the war, more than three years after Russia\u2019s invasion. 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