(WJW) – The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of a former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist accused of spying for Iran.
Monica Witt defected to Iran in 2013 and was later charged with revealing classified information to the Tehran government.
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Witt, 47, was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2019 on charges of espionage and transmitting national defense information to Iran. Prosecutors allege she used her access to top-secret material during her military and contracting work to reveal sensitive intelligence, including the identities of undercover U.S. personnel.
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Witt served in the U.S. Air Force from 1997 to 2008 as an intelligence technical sergeant and later worked as a government contractor until 2010, according to federal authorities. Officials said her roles gave her access to classified national security information involving foreign intelligence and counterintelligence operations.
The FBI said Witt also conducted research for Iranian intelligence efforts aimed at targeting former U.S. government colleagues and that her actions benefited Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Investigators describe Witt as a white woman, 5 feet 10 inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes.
She is also known by the aliases Fatemah Zahra and Narges Witt…