A former U.S. counterintelligence agent has been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to deliver and delivering national defense information to representatives of the Iranian government, prosecutors said.
Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, who defected to Iran in 2013, allegedly assisted Iranian intelligence services to target her former agent colleagues inside the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC). She is also believed to have disclosed the code name and classified mission of a U.S. Department of Defense Special Access Program.
