Former U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer Charged With Spying For Iran

Photo: An image provided by the F.B.I. shows Monica E. Witt in 2012. (NYT)

Daily Mail: Ex-Air Force counterintelligence agent is charged with spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guard six years after she vanished in central Asia

* Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, defected to Iran in 2013
* She is charged with revealing classified information, spying on former colleagues
* Set up fake Facebook account to mimic account of one former colleague
* Tricked 'several' former colleagues to accept 'friend' requests from the fake account
* Charged with 'revealing to the Iranian regime a highly classified intelligence program and the identity of a U.S. Intelligence Officer'

Federal prosecutors have charged a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist with collaborating with Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to spy on her former American colleagues.

Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, defected to Iran in 2013, and brought with information about U.S. spy techniques and the people who took part in them.

She is charged with conspiring to deliver as well as delivering national defense information to representatives of the Iranian government, a long-time adversary of Washington.

Along with four 'cyber coconspirators' in Iran, she sought to deploy malware and spearfishing campaigns 'that would provide them covert access to the targets' computers and networks,' according to prosecutors.

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