Air Force Employee Charged With Sharing Highly Classified Info on Dating App

[Cicada 5]

David Franklin Slater, a 63-year-old from Nebraska, was arrested March 2 and charged with transmitting classified material. Slater, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, held a Top Secret security clearance and worked at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base until he was arrested on Saturday.


The indictment alleges Slater was using an unnamed foreign dating site where he provided an unnamed woman with extremely sensitive information about the war in Ukraine. Russia first invaded Ukraine in late February 2022 and the messages quoted in the indictment start on March 7 of that year, less than a month after the conflict began. The war has taken the lives of tens of thousands on both sides over the past two years, with no end in sight.

The messages Slater received from the unnamed woman are peppered with loving phrases and indicate she claimed to be from Ukraine. But they also betray the fact that whoever Slater was actually talking to clearly wanted secret information by using pleasantries that included specific requests for details such as:

• “American Intelligence says that already 100% of Russian troops are located on the territory of Ukraine. Do you think this information can be trusted?”
• “Dear, what is shown on the screens in the special room?? It is very interesting.”
• “By the way, you were the first to tell me that NATO members are traveling by train and only now (already evening) this was announced on our news. You are my secret informant love! How were your meetings? Successfully?”
• “Beloved Dave, do NATO and Biden have a secret plan to help us?”

'You Are My Secret Agent': Air Force Employee Charged With Sharing Highly Classified Info on Dating App

"Dear, what is shown on the screens in the special room?? It is very interesting."

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[XsjadoBlayde]

It's always a Dave

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Ooh baby, it would be so hot if you were to leak some classified military information to me, a hot 21 year old Ukrainian blonde who inexplicably has a thing for 60+ American men.

 

[Chimpzy]

I was unaware War Thunder had such a buzzing dating scene.

 

[Gordon_4]

I had a joke about the honey trap setting up shop on OnlyPlans and this guy got confused or something but I lost it.

But I bet the War Thunder guys loved being able to say “Not us this time!”

 

[Schadrach]

a hot 21 year old Ukrainian blonde who inexplicably has a thing for 60+ American men.

I mean usually that thing is money and/or a path to US citizenship. For classified info she's going to have to be a little more targeted.

 

[BrawlMan]

What a dumbass. That's another one for the fire.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Another moron with more power than sense, thinking with the head he wants to get wet; the only thing I'm surprised at is how old he is. You'd expect that at over 60 he'd have learned a thing or two.

 

[BrawlMan]

Another moron with more power than sense, thinking with the head he wants to get wet; the only thing I'm surprised at is how old he is. You'd expect that at over 60 he'd have learned a thing or two.

He's a 60-year-old man with the mind of a high schooler. I'm not shocked in the slightest, and I'm sure there's a couple other people his age or slightly older that have the same mindset he does.

 

[Gergar12]

I wonder if we can get War Thunder to be sold to a US company as well, hint hint hint Congress.