Former US Air Force intelligence specialist Monica Witt is still believed to be in hiding in Iran, and the FBI is now offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to her capture and prosecution, officials confirmed in an updated appeal from Washington this week.
After a renewed push by US counterintelligence officials to track down Witt, she was first charged in 2019 with espionage and conspiracy to deliver national defence information to the Iranian government. For readers who have not followed her case, she is not an anonymous defector lost in a stack of old files. To US security agencies, Witt represents a rare and deeply troubling breach at the heart of the intelligence community.
