Former Air Force intelligence specialist charged with spying for Iran

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The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled criminal charges against a former Air Force intelligence specialist who was allegedly recruited by the Iranian government to spy on the United States.

The indictment unsealed Wednesday charges Monica Witt, who officials say worked for a U.S. defense contractor after leaving the Air Force and handled highly classified information, with two counts of delivering national defense information to a foreign government and one count of conspiracy. Witt is accused of revealing a top-secret U.S. intelligence program to Iran, as well as disclosing the identity of a U.S. counterintelligence agent.

The indictment also charges four of Witt’s alleged Iranian co-conspirators with cyber crimes for targeting Witt’s former U.S. government colleagues on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Officials with the Justice Department, FBI and Air Force announced the charges Wednesday in Washington, describing them as a result of a years-long investigation.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/429803-former-air-force-intelligence-specialist-charged-with-spying-for

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Wow. Good old fashioned spy stuff. Defection and all.

I wonder how she got in to it. Did it start small and snowball out of control? Was she a convert?

The detailed 27-page indictment alleges that Witt was recruited by an unknown dual U.S.-Iranian citizen identified only as “Individual A.”

Witt is said to have traveled to Iran in 2012 to attend a conference sponsored by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that promoted anti-American propaganda. She is said to have defected to Iran in late August 2013, and U.S. officials believe she remains in Iran. Witt is likely out of reach of U.S. prosecutors as a result.

The indictment alleges that Witt disclosed the code name and mission of a top-secret Pentagon program to Iranian officials and also gave them the name of a U.S. government counterintelligence agent

NPR has the court docs

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/694234985/ex-air-force-counterintelligence-officer-charged-with-giving-secrets-to-iran