Security News > 2019 > February > Ex-US Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying and Helping Iranian Hackers
2019-02-14 10:03
The United States Department of Justice has announced espionage charges against a former US Air Force intelligence officer with the highest level of top-secret clearance for providing the Iranian government classified defense information after she defected to Iran in 2013. Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, was a former U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist and Special Agent of the Air Force Office
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