A former Air Force intelligence specialist who defected to Iran has been charged with conspiring to provide U.S. defense information to representatives of that country’s government, including the code name and mission of a highly classified program, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Law enforcement officials insisted there was no connection between the timing of the charges and the conference. We went to Witt and we told her that she might be targeted by intelligence officers in travel to Iran. A few months later — after some apparent logistical hurdles — Witt successfully defected, according to the indictment. She also began to create “target packages” to help Iranians zero in on U.S. counterintelligence officers, according to the indictment.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2019 16:03 UTC