Obama visit plan in gutter

AUSTRALIAN officials were working yesterday to trace how a top-secret dossier containing detailed plans for US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Australia came to be found in a gutter.

The 125-page booklet, classified “In Confidence” and containing the contact details of senior personnel from Australia and the US, was found near parliament by a Fairfax journalist.

It contained a schedule of Obama’s movements during his 27-hour visit to Canberra and Darwin last week, even detailing which car door he would use and the seating arrangements within his convoys.