Preparatory documents for participants of the summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were found in a hotel printer in Anchorage, according to a US media report.
The radio network NPR reported that eight pages were discovered on Friday morning in the business centre of the Captain Cook Hotel, located about a 20-minute drive from the Elmendorf-Richardson military base, where the two presidents met to discuss the Ukraine war.
The documents, published by NPR, include a detailed schedule with specific meeting rooms, contact persons from the US State Department with phone numbers, the menu for the planned lunch, mini-biographies with photos of the participants.
The lunch included a green salad, filet mignon and halibut with creme brulee for dessert.
Also in the materials were pronunciation guides for the Russian names, including “POO-tihn” for the Russian president.
Security experts criticized the incident.
“It strikes me as further evidence of the slopiness and the incompetence of the administration,” Jon Michaels, a law professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, told the broadcaster.
“You just don’t leave things in printers. It’s that simple.”
