Monica Witt was a decorated US veteran with access to top secret information. Now she could do ‘damage to the US’, experts and former classmates tell The Times
Monica Witt was 34 and a former counterintelligence officer for the US air force when her Iranian visa finally came through. She celebrated the moment that had been months in the making.
“I’m signing off and heading out! Coming home,” the Texan wrote in a message to her handler in Tehran on August 28, 2013, alongside a smiley face emoji.
Witt had been groomed, recruited and finally turned into a spy by agents linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
