Would possibly 15 (UPI) — The FBI is offering a reward for recordsdata main to the arrest of a feeble Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran in 2013.
Monica Elfriede Witt, 47, of El Paso, Texas, is accused of spying for Iran. She used to be indicted in February 2019 by a federal sizable jury in Washington, D.C., on espionage charges. The charges relate she transmitted categorized defense recordsdata to Iran.
Witt served within the defense pressure between 1997 and 2008 earlier to working as a U.S. authorities contractor except 2010. She had find admission to to prime secret recordsdata, along side the finest names of People working undercover, an FBI press liberate acknowledged.
She “allegedly betrayed her oath to the Constitution” by “defecting to Iran and providing the Iranian regime National Defense Information and likely continues to support their nefarious activities,” acknowledged Daniel Wierzbicki, special agent responsible of the FBI Washington Subject Voice of job’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division.
“The FBI has not forgotten and believes that during this critical moment in Iran’s history, there is someone who knows something about her whereabouts,” he added.
The press liberate acknowledged that “Witt allegedly intentionally provided information endangering U.S. personnel and their families stationed abroad. She also allegedly conducted research on behalf of the Iranian regime to allow them to target her former colleagues in the U.S. government.”
