A United States Air Force employee has been charged with sharing classified information on a foreign dating website after prosecutors say he sent sensitive information about Russia's war in Ukraine to a person who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine.Prosecutors say 63-year-old David Franklin Slater, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who held a Top Secret security clearance at US Strategic Command, attended classified briefings on the war in Ukraine from February through April 2022, soon after Russia's invasion began.Slater then sent this classified information to someone who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine, according to an indictment. The two communicated via email and through the foreign dating website's online messaging platform, though the indictment does not identify which one.
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