Air Force employee indicted for disclosing classified information on foreign dating site: ‘You are my secret informant love!’

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.