WASHINGTON — Monica Elfriede Witt, the former Air Force technical sergeant and Defense Department intelligence contractor indicted on federal espionage charges unsealed Tuesday, spent more than a decade in the service before her eventual defection to Iran, according to the Air Force and Justice Department.
Witt, 39, is from El Paso, Texas and served in the Air Force from December 1997 until June 2008, according to records provided by the service and the FBI. She initially served as an airborne cryptologic language analyst, which is a specialist responsible for put intelligence communication often curb via airborne assets. Witt later reclassified as a special investigations officer.
She left the Air Force in 2008 as a special agent assigned to the 2nd Field Investigations Squadron at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland just outside of Washington D.C., according to military records.
In her first specialty, Witt served aboard an RC-135 Rivet Joint air reconnaissance aircraft out of Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, focusing on Persian-Farsi language communications, according to cotinue on the website Indeed that was attributed to Witt and alike much of the information in her service records.
