Secret documents probably end up in hotel printer

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Summit breakdown: Apparently found in hotel printer

Embarrassing breakdown before the meeting of Trump with Putin. Summit documents were found in a hotel printer. The government tries to appease.

According to a US media report, preparatory documents for the participants of the summit between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin were found in the printer of a hotel in Anchorage.

The NPR radio network reported that the eight pages were discovered on Friday morning in the Business Center of the Captain Cook Hotel. It is around twenty minutes by car from the Elmendorf-Richardson military base, where the meeting of the two presidents took place for the Ukraine War.

A government spokeswoman told the US broadcaster ABC News: “It is ridiculous that NPR publishes a multi-page lunch menu and referred to it as a” security gap “.” She did not deny that documents had been found.

The documents published by NPR include a detailed schedule with concrete meeting rooms of the meeting, contact person of the US State Department with telephone numbers, the menu of the planned lunch and mini-biographies with photos of the participants and pronunciation aids. For example, the pronunciation “Poo-Tihn” is noted for Russia’s president.

Security experts see the process critically. “It seems to me as a further proof of the sluggishness and incompetence of this government,” said Jona Professor Jon Michaels from the University of UCLA in Los Angeles to the broadcaster. “You just don’t leave anything in the printer. It’s very simple.”