A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force is heading to prison after he conspired to share classified information on a foreign online dating platform.

According to the Associated Press , David Slater has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska on Wednesday.

He was arrested in March of 2024 and pleaded guilty in July.

According to court documents, Slater, after retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army, worked in a classified space at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and held a top-secret security clearance between August 2021 and April 2022.

He attended briefings about the Russia-Ukraine war and admitted in July that he conspired to transmit classified information that he

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