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FBI Offers $200K Reward for Ex-Air Force Spy Who Defected to Iran
The FBI says Witt remains at large and is seeking tips that could lead to her arrest and prosecution.
- On Thursday, the FBI announced a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Monica Witt, a former Air Force intelligence specialist charged with espionage for Iran.
- A former counterintelligence officer for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Witt defected to Iran in 2013 and was charged in 2019 with providing sensitive National Defense Information to the regime.
- Prosecutors alleged Witt revealed a "highly classified intelligence collection program" and the identity of a US intelligence officer to Tehran; Iranian officials provided her "goods and services, including housing and computer equipment."
- Special Agent Daniel Wierzbicki of the FBI Washington Field Office stated the agency believes Witt "likely continues to support" Iranian activities while remaining at large.
- The FBI warned Witt's information could empower the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has elements responsible for intelligence collection and support for terrorist organizations targeting United States interests.
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The FBI is re-launching Monica Witt's tracking, more than ten years after his disappearance. This former US Air Force intelligence specialist is accused of transmitting sensitive military secrets to Iran....
The FBI does not give up the investigation of the Monica Witt case. This former US Air Force intelligence specialist, accused of deserting Iran in 2013, could hold "secret classified information and TOP SECRET regarding external information and counterintelligence, including the real names of agents infiltrated from the American intelligence community, indicates the American agency, which resumed its search on Thursday, reports Le Figaro.
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