The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced a $200,000 reward for information on Monica Witt, a defected US Air Force officer accused of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The special agent and counterintelligence specialist was charged with espionage in 2019 for allegedly leaking the classified US intelligence information to Iran. The agency said the female officer has not been found since he defected in 2013.
Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, Daniel Wierzbicki, said: “The FBI has not forgotten and believes that at this critical moment in Iran’s history, someone knows something about her whereabouts.”
He added, “The FBI wants to hear from you so you can help us apprehend Witt and bring her to justice.”
Witt joined the USAF in 1997 and left in 2008; however, she remained a contractor for the Department of Defense until 2010.
She traveled to Iran to attend a conference aimed at criticizing American moral standards.
The FBI accused her of working with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the elite force formed after the 1979 revolution to expand the country’s influence worldwide.
In addition to Witt, four Iranians were also charged in the same 2019 indictment with conspiracy and identity theft.
