Air Force employee leaked classified secrets on dating app: feds
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A civilian Air Force employee shared classified information about Russia’s war in Ukraine with a woman he met on a foreign dating app, federal investigators said.
David Slater, 63, worked at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb., according to the Justice Department. Prior to his civilian work, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Army.
Slater met someone claiming to be a Ukrainian woman on an unspecified dating platform, the feds said. From February to April in 2022, Slater supplied the woman with top secret information he’d sworn not to release, according to investigators.
Slater “knowingly transmitted classified national defense information to another person in blatant disregard for the security of his country and his oath to safeguard its secrets,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen said in a press release.
The woman, identified in the indictment only as “co-conspirator 1,” called Slater her “secret informant love” and “secret agent” in messages on the platform, according to the indictment against Slater.
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