PX-1508
CHATHAM HOUSE
INVENTED FOR A FICTIONAL NEWSPAPER
Steering committee agenda and attendance sheet, 71st conference
- Origin
- Left in a hotel business centre, Turnberry
- Dated
- May 2024
- Extent
- 3 pages
- Status
- contested
- Redactions
- Attendance sheet: 31 names legible, 9 illegible in the photograph. We publish the 31.
Chain of custody
Found in the output tray of a hotel business-centre printer by a wedding guest, who photographed it, kept the paper, and gave it to this newspaper eleven months later after reading our coverage. She is named with her consent. We have the original sheets and the hotel has confirmed, in writing, that the printer in question was in that room on that date. It has not confirmed anything else.
Held by: They Buried, document room
Excerpt
SESSION IV · 11:15 · THE ORDERLY TRANSITION · sequencing · public tolerance thresholds · what is announced, and in which order NOTE: no minutes. no summary. no readout. participants are asked not to characterise the session to their own institutions.
Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.
Editor's note
The conference's secretariat says this agenda is 'not a document of the conference'. It does not say the session did not occur. Both statements are printed in full in the story and in Right of Reply.
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