Overview

• Three guests at Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage discovered an eight-page packet of State Department–marked documents in a public business-center printer the morning of the Aug. 15 summit.
• The packet outlined meeting schedules and locations at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, included phone numbers for three U.S. staffers, and described a planned luncheon menu, seating chart and an American Bald Eagle desk statue gift.
• Images obtained and reviewed by NPR confirm seven of the pages were produced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol, underscoring their official provenance.
• The White House downplayed the contents as a “multi-page lunch menu” and asserted that leaving the papers behind did not constitute a security breach.
• National-security experts have condemned the oversight as a serious procedural failure, and no formal investigation or attribution of responsibility has been announced.