Shown is the StratCom Gate at Offutt Air Force Base. (Courtesy of Offutt Air Force Base)
BELLEVUE, Nebraska — A civilian U.S. Air Force employee working at U.S. Strategic Command pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to share classified national defense info with a person on a foreign dating website.
The man, whom authorities identified as David Franklin Slater, 64, of Nebraska, had access to classified and “top secret” information as a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel working in the defense industry…