FBI Announces $200,000 Reward for Monica Witt

The FBI announced a $200,000 reward on Thursday for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist indicted in 2019 on espionage charges for allegedly providing classified information to Iran.

Witt, 47, served on active duty in the Air Force from 1997 to 2008 as an intelligence specialist and special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. She later worked as a U.S. government contractor until 2010. During that time, she held security clearances granting access to secret and top secret information on foreign intelligence and counterintelligence operations, including the true identities of U.S. undercover personnel.

According to the federal indictment issued by a grand jury in the District of Columbia in February 2019, Witt defected to Iran in 2013. Prosecutors allege she transmitted national defense information to the Iranian government, including details of a classified U.S. Department of Defense special access program involving counterintelligence missions, source recruitment, and agent identities. The charges state she conducted research to create target packages on her former U.S....