Overview

• State Department officials left an eight-page planning dossier for the Trump–Putin summit on a public printer at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage.
• Pages detailed precise meeting times, room names on Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, staff phone numbers and a canceled luncheon seating chart.
• Hotel guests discovered and photographed the documents and shared the images with NPR, which reviewed and verified the packet’s contents.
• National-security experts condemned the lapse as a serious breach of operational security and administrative oversight.
• Neither the White House nor the State Department has publicly explained how the documents were exposed or what corrective actions will follow.