Secret Trump-Putin agenda leaked in hotel security flaw
US public broadcaster NPR reports that eight pages of documents detailing a planned meeting between the presidents of the United States and Russia were found in a public printer at an Anchorage hotel, BBC News has learned.
The documents were discovered by three anonymous guests at the four-star Captain Cook Hotel, located 20 minutes from the summit's venue—the Elmendorf–Richardson military base. The incident occurred on Friday around 9 a.m. local time, roughly two hours before the meeting was scheduled to begin.
NPR published the eight pages of documents, which reveal the presidents were not originally scheduled for a one-on-one discussion, as first planned, or a three-on-three meeting, as actually happened, but a two-on-two format. The US delegation was to include Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff, while the Russian side would be Vladimir Putin and his advisor, Yuri Ushakov. Ultimately, they were joined by the foreign ministers of both countries, Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio.
The documents also included the menu for their shared lunch, as well as the meeting's agenda, which showed that an hour had been allotted for a joint press conference with the two presidents. After the meeting, Putin and Trump did appear before journalists but did not take any questions.
The White House and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment, according to NPR.
Translation by Iurie Tataru
