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On the 28th of August, 2013, a woman named Monica Witt sent an email from Dubai.
The message went to a contact in Iran who had been managing her movements for months.
"I'm signing off and heading out," she wrote, "Coming home." Witt was a former US Air Force cryptologic language analyst who held a top secret clearance and access to some of America's most sensitive counterintelligence programs.
In February 2019, a federal grand jury indicted Monica Witt on charges of conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government and two substantive counts of delivering that information.
An arrest warrant was issued, but only on the 14th of May this year was a $200,000 bounty placed on her head.
But who is she, and why does the FBI now, 13 years later, want her back so badly? [upbeat music] Monica Elfriede Witt was born on the 8th of April 1979 in El Paso, Texas.
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On the 28th of August, 2013, a woman named Monica Witt sent an email from Dubai.
The message went to a contact in Iran who had been managing her movements for months.
"I'm signing off and heading out," she wrote, "Coming home." Witt was a former US Air Force cryptologic language analyst who held a top secret clearance and access to some of America's most sensitive counterintelligence programs.
In February 2019, a federal grand jury indicted Monica Witt on charges of conspiracy to deliver national defense information to a foreign government and two substantive counts of delivering that information.
An arrest warrant was issued, but only on the 14th of May this year was a $200,000 bounty placed on her head.
But who is she, and why does the FBI now, 13 years later, want her back so badly? [upbeat music] Monica Elfriede Witt was born on the 8th of April 1979 in El Paso, Texas.