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Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran
The New York Times ^ | 13 Feb 2019 | Adam Goldman

Posted on 02/13/2019 9:26:09 AM PST by Theoria

A former United States Air Force counterintelligence agent was charged with espionage after she defected to Iran and helped it target her former colleagues, the authorities said.

In an extraordinarily detailed indictment made public on Wednesday, prosecutors disclosed that Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, gave the Iranians the code name and mission of a secret Pentagon program involving American intelligence operations.

According to the indictment, she was working with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The elite paramilitary group is known to carry out terrorist operations around the globe and has been sanctioned by the American government.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 201902; airforce; china; codename; iran; irgc; islam; monicaelfriedewitt; monicawitt; spies; spooks; traitor; witt; wittsend
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1 posted on 02/13/2019 9:26:09 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Theoria

Monica E. Witt
2 posted on 02/13/2019 9:26:55 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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Too bad we can’t send a SEAL team in to take care of this evil traitor


3 posted on 02/13/2019 9:27:46 AM PST by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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4 posted on 02/13/2019 9:30:26 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Theoria

My reaction before clicking...”Why in God’s name would someone do...”

then I clicked.


5 posted on 02/13/2019 9:30:33 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: kanawa

These things happen from time to time. No matter how sever the damage the US does seem to go on. Loral and the Chicoms I still fume about.


6 posted on 02/13/2019 9:33:02 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Theoria

Why am I thinking Valerie Jarrett?


7 posted on 02/13/2019 9:33:04 AM PST by Zathras
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To: RWGinger

Just get a REMOTELY general idea where she is and unload from the skies.

Screw the collateral damage.

Though from what I understand a lot of younger Iranians pretty much hate the govt.

But she needs to die.

Get Israeli intelligence to do it as a favor.

We’ll owe them one.


8 posted on 02/13/2019 9:33:14 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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How long has she been in counterintelligence?? Another Obama promotion?


9 posted on 02/13/2019 9:33:29 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: kanawa

I clicked. I read the whole article.

But I still don’t understand why she did this.


10 posted on 02/13/2019 9:34:04 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Theoria

Looks like the newly elected Congresswoman


11 posted on 02/13/2019 9:35:44 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: gaijin
From another article.

'Federal authorities said that Witt defected to Iran in 2013, and allegedly provided the government with sensitive defense information and the identity of at least one U.S. intelligence officer. Before boarding her flight to Tehran, prosecutors said, she typed an email to an associate saying: "I'm signing off and heading out! Coming home." She closed with a smile emoji. '

12 posted on 02/13/2019 9:36:24 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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We don’t have to send a seal team in, just an assassin.
This is when we need a real Mitch Rapp.


13 posted on 02/13/2019 9:36:59 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Obama would have given her a medal.


14 posted on 02/13/2019 9:37:15 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: gaijin

Let me guess, she converted to Islam, that was her motivation.


15 posted on 02/13/2019 9:38:23 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: gaijin

Traitor. Short rope. Tall tree.

Some assembly required.


16 posted on 02/13/2019 9:39:09 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: gaijin

I’m not convinced those two photos are of the same person.


17 posted on 02/13/2019 9:39:15 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zathras
"Why am I thinking Valerie Jarrett?"

We will probably never know the full extent of the Obama administration's treasonous activities....

...or the full weight of what DJT has had to pull us out of (kicking and screaming all the way, I might add).

18 posted on 02/13/2019 9:42:40 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Theoria

Gee, is she a convert?! Hang her. Or send her to Iran to live.


19 posted on 02/13/2019 9:42:42 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Works for me
I guess it is a chance we take when we hire muslims . No Not all are bad
but this one seems to have caused several deaths


20 posted on 02/13/2019 9:42:47 AM PST by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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