Air Force employee indicted for disclosing classified information on foreign dating site: ‘You are my secret informant love!’
Defense And Security,Classified Documents,Classified Information,Air Force
A civilian US Air Force employee with a top secret security clearance used a foreign dating website to transmit classified national defense information to a person claiming to be a woman living in Ukraine, according to the Justice Department.
David Franklin Slater, 63, was arrested Saturday after being indicted on charges of conspiracy to disclose national defense information and unauthorized disclosure of national defense information.
He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Slater was assigned to US Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska when he began communicating with his unnamed co-conspirator.
Their online relationship lasted from roughly February 2022 until April 2022, a period during which Slater attended top secret briefings on Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the DOJ.
The three-count indictment against Slater alleges that the person he was communicating with on the dating site “regularly asked” the Air Force employee “to provide her with sensitive, non-public, closely held, and classified [national defense information]” that he had access to.
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