Washington (USA), 16 August (LaPresse) – A series of documents with US State Department letterhead, found on Friday morning in the shopping centre of a hotel in Alaska, reveal previously confidential and potentially sensitive details about the mid-August summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage. NPR reports that there are ‘eight pages, which appear to have been produced by US personnel and accidentally left behind,’ containing ‘precise locations and times of the summit and telephone numbers of US government employees.’The documents were found around 9 a.m. on Friday by three guests at the Captain Cook Hotel, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base in Anchorage, where the US and Russian leaders were meeting. The papers had been left in one of the hotel's public printers. NPR examined photos of the documents taken by one of the guests. The first page of the printed document reveals the sequence of meetings on 15 August, including the specific names of the rooms within the Anchorage base where they were to take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial gift. ‘POTUS to President Putin,’ the document reads, ‘Desk statue depicting an American bald eagle.’ Pages 2 to 5 list the names and telephone numbers of three US staff members, as well as the names of 13 members of the US and Russian government delegations. Pages 6 and 7 describe how lunch would be served at the summit and to whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that lunch would be held ‘in honour of His Excellency Vladimir Putin.’ A seating chart shows that Putin and Trump were to sit across from each other during lunch. The White House and the State Department have not commented on the matter.
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