Overview

• Hotel guests at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage found an eight-page State Department–marked packet in a public printer hours before the summit with Vladimir Putin.
• The documents outlined precise meeting times and locations at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, seating charts, a planned ‘American Bald Eagle Desk Statue’ gift and a three-course luncheon menu.
• Staff phone numbers, phonetic pronunciations of Russian names and other operational details were included alongside routine protocol information.
• White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the material as a “multi-page lunch menu,” and officials have denied that a security breach occurred.
• Security analysts and media outlets have raised concerns about the mix of mundane and sensitive details, but no formal investigation or corrective action has been announced.