US Department of Defense employees will receive training on protecting classified data in case of leakage of classified information. Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder said this during a briefing on the detention of a retired American soldier for revealing information about Russia and Ukraine. TASS.
He responded negatively to the question of whether he believed that the US Department of Defense faced a problem with the presence of spies among its employees. Ryder stated that the Pentagon “takes the insider threat seriously.” That’s why every Department of Defense employee “will receive training in the proper handling and protection of classified information,” he said.
“If you break these rules, you will be held accountable,” Ryder added.
this week recognizedUS authorities have accused a US citizen of passing classified military information using an online dating platform. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the US Department of Justice.
According to the indictment, 63-year-old Nebraska employee David Franklin Slater was assigned to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base and had access to top-secret information for a year.
According to law enforcement, Slater transmitted information through a foreign online platform that affected the interests of U.S. national defense. The American attended closed briefings of the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) on the conflict in Ukraine and later passed this information to his accomplice through a dating site.
The engineer who previously passed on US nuclear secrets in a butter sandwich accepted crime.