The US counterintelligence agent has angered Iran and the US has set a $200 Thousand reward for the agent's capture or death.

 

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The US counterintelligence agent has angered Iran and the US has set a $200 Thousand reward for the agent's capture or death.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it has offered a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Monica Witt.

 

The FBI said in a statement that Monica Witt was a former US counterintelligence agent and was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., in February 2019 on charges of spying for the Islamic Republic of Iran, including passing national defense information to the Iranian government.

Witt was previously a US Air Force intelligence specialist and a special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

She served in the US Army from 1997 to 2008 and then worked as a US government contractor until 2010.

Monica Witt fled to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2013.

Earlier, Reuters news agency reported, citing US officials, that Monica Witt was recruited by the Iranian company "Ofq No" after attending two international conferences held by it in support of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

A few years ago, the US Treasury Department sanctioned two legal entities based in Iran, "Ofq No" Organization and "Net Paygard Samavat Company", as well as 10 individuals associated with them, in this connection.

According to the indictment, Witt provided the Iranian government with information that she had due to her job and sensitive access, which jeopardized the security of sensitive US national defense information and programs.

According to a statement from the US Federal Police, she is also said to have knowingly provided information that put the lives of US troops and their families abroad at risk. According to the charges, Witt conducted research for the Iranian government so that Iranian authorities could target her former colleagues in the US government.

Daniel Wierzbicki, head of the FBI's Counterintelligence and Cyber ​​Division in Washington, said of the charges against Monica Witt, "She betrayed her oath to the Constitution more than a decade ago by seeking refuge in Iran and providing national defense information to the Iranian government, and she likely continues to support their malign activities."

"The FBI has not forgotten this case and believes that at this critical juncture in Iran's history, someone has information about her whereabouts. We are asking the public to provide the FBI with information so that we can arrest and prosecute her," he said.