Eight pages with the U.S. State Department’s seal were found Friday morning in an open-access printer at a hotel in Anchorage, U.S. Public Radio reported.

They contain details of the summit held the previous day between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base. The documents, likely written by members of the U.S. administration and inadvertently left in the business center of the Captain Cook Hotel, detail the exact times and locations of the meetings, as well as the phone numbers of several U.S. officials.

Around 9 a.m. Friday, three patrons of the establishment, located about 20 minutes from the Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base, where the bilateral meeting took place, found the pages forgotten in a public printer. One of them shared photos of the document with U.S. Public Radio, requesting anonymity for fear of retaliation.

Faced with these revelations, the White House downplayed the incident. Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly called the document simply a “lunch menu” and assured that there was no security breach. The State Department did not comment on the incident.

The first page detailed the order of the scheduled meetings, with the exact names of the rooms at the military base. It also stated that President Trump intended to give his Russian counterpart a tabletop statue of a bald eagle, the American national symbol.

The following pages listed thirteen senior American and Russian officials, along with the phone numbers of three U.S. officials. To facilitate communication, the document also provided phonetic transcriptions of Russian names, including pronunciation instructions, including that of Putin. The document detailed the participants in the meeting, including photos and contact information for Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin and his political aide.

The following pages described the lunch planned “in honor of His Excellency Vladimir Putin.” The seating chart shows Trump and Putin sitting across from each other. The US president is accompanied by six staffers, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. On the Russian side, Putin is accompanied by his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his adviser Yuri Ushakov.

The planned menu – ultimately canceled – included a green salad, a choice of filet mignon and Olympia halibut, and crème brûlée for dessert.

“This discovery illustrates serious negligence. It’s yet another example of the administration’s negligence and incompetence. You just don’t leave documents in a printer, it’s that simple,” said John Michaels, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a national security expert, about the scandal.

The incident adds to a string of security blunders. Earlier this week, an immigration officials chat group accidentally included a stranger in discussions about tracking a criminal. In March, national security officials mistakenly added a journalist to a Signal conversation about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. | BGNES