“SYDNEY Morning Herald” reporter Dylan Welch yesterday found a detailed secret booklet describing Barack Obama’s Australian schedule in a gutter, 100 metres from the entrance to Parliament House.

The 125-page booklet, entitled Overall Program and Order of Arrangements, classified “in confidence” included a minute-by-minute breakdown of President Obama’s security convoy.

Welch reported that the booklet contained security details including which limousine door the President would enter and exit, seating arrangements for the presidential motorcade and an outline of the secret service presidential protective division that includes ”counter-assault teams”, a ”comms vehicle”, an ”intel car” and the ”hammer truck” (hammer standing for ”hazardous agent mitigation medical emergency response”).

He wrote that the booklet also listed mobile numbers of many US and Australian officials, including US deputy ambassador, Jason Hyland, and the US consuls-general in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, an embassy attache, three Australian Air Force wing commanders in Canberra and Darwin, and the federal police co-ordinator for foreign dignity protection.

The “SMH” quoted security analyst, Alan Dupont as saying the find was far more than embarrassing. It represented a significant security breach.

”If that had got into the wrong hands it would certainly put the President and some of his entourage at risk, if someone could respond quickly enough to having the information,” Prof Dupont told the “SMH”.

”Even if you were an ordinary crim, there would be a market for that kind of book, so it’s not good news.”