FBI Offers $200K Reward To Catch Ex-Air Force Specialist Wanted On Espionage Charges In Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran in 2013. Monica Elfriede Witt was indicted in February 2019 on espionage charges. She remains at large. Witt allegedly transmitted national defense information to Iran. She served in the Air Force from 1997 to 2008 where she was trained in the Farsi language and was deployed overseas on classified counterintelligence missions, including to the Middle East. She later worked as a Defense Department contractor. The FBI believes someone knows her whereabouts and urges them to come forward.