New in SpyWeek: China, Cuba, Iran and an Air Force Defector
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Witt’s Run: The defection of former Air Force intelligence specialist and OSI agent Monica Witt to Iran was revealed by the Justice Department in 2019, so it’s not clear why the FBI ballyhooed this week that it was offering $200,000 for information leading to her capture (unless it was an attempt to deflect attention from yet another report on the unbecoming behavior of Director Kash Patel.) Witt is believed to have converted to Islam and defected to Iran in 2012-2013. The pattern of her evolution from a Farsi-trained, airborne cryptologist to ideological defector got an interesting treatment from the Warsaw-based law firm Skarbiec, in “The Sergeant Who Became Fatemah Zahra.”
