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作者：卡安妮塔·艾耶
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发布于 2026年5月14日美国东部时间下午1:23
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莫妮卡·威特
美国联邦调查局
美国联邦调查局正悬赏20万美元，征集能促成逮捕一名前空军情报专家的线索，该人于2019年被指控为伊朗从事间谍活动。
联邦调查局在周四的公告中表示，警方仍在寻找莫妮卡·威特，据信她已于2013年叛逃至伊朗。该局称，相信她“可能仍在支持（伊朗的）邪恶活动”。
“联邦调查局没有忘记此事，并且认为在伊朗历史的这个关键时刻，有人知道她的下落，”联邦调查局华盛顿特区办事处反情报与网络部门主管特别探员丹尼尔·维尔任比奇在一份声明中说道，这番话可能暗指美国与伊朗目前持续紧张的关系。
“我们希望知情人士与我们联系，协助我们逮捕威特并将其绳之以法，”声明中写道。
威特曾是美国空军特别调查办公室的前反情报官员。2003年至2008年间，威特的工作涉及反情报任务，曾被派往中东地区。
2019年，时任助理司法部长约翰·德默斯指控威特被伊朗策反招募，叛逃后，她 allegedly 向伊朗透露了一个“高度机密的情报收集项目”的存在以及一名美国情报官员的身份，“从而危及了该人员的生命”。
检察官在起诉书中指控，在2012年1月左右至2015年5月左右期间，威特在伊朗及美国境外其他地点与伊朗人合谋，提供“与美国国防相关的文件和信息，且明知这些信息会被用于损害美国利益、为伊朗谋取优势”。
根据起诉书，叛逃后，伊朗政府官员为威特提供了“物资和服务，包括住房和电脑设备”，以协助她为伊朗工作。目前尚不清楚她是否在美国聘请了律师为其辩护。
该起诉书还指控四名伊朗人犯有共谋罪、企图实施计算机入侵以及严重身份盗窃罪。
FBI offers $200,000 for information on former Air Force intelligence specialist charged with spying for Iran
2026-05-14T17:23:53.215Z / CNN
By Kaanita Iyer
2 hr ago
PUBLISHED May 14, 2026, 1:23 PM ET
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Monica Witt
FBI
The FBI is offering $200,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of a former Air Force intelligence specialist who was charged in 2019 with spying for Iran.
In an announcement Thursday, the FBI said it is still trying to locate Monica Witt, who it believes defected to Iran in 2013. The agency said it believes she “likely continues to support (Iran’s) nefarious activities.”
“The FBI has not forgotten and believes that during this critical moment in Iran’s history, there is someone who knows something about her whereabouts,” Daniel Wierzbicki, special agent in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, said a statement, likely referring to the US’ ongoing tensions with Iran.
“The FBI wants to hear from you so you can help us apprehend Witt and bring her to justice,” it said.
Witt was a former counterintelligence officer for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. From 2003 and 2008, Witt’s work involved counterintelligence assignments that took her to the Middle East.
In 2019, then-Assistant Attorney General John Demers alleged that Witt was targeted and recruited by Iran, and after she defected, she allegedly revealed to Iran the existence of a “highly classified intelligence collection program” and the identity of a US intelligence officer, “thereby risking the life of this individual.”
Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that from around January 2012 to around May 2015, in Iran and elsewhere outside the US, Witt conspired with Iranians to provide “documents and information relating to the national defense of the United States, with the intent and reason to believe that the same would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of Iran.”
After her defection, Iranian government officials provided Witt with “goods and services, including housing and computer equipment,” to facilitate her work for them, according to the indictment. It’s unclear whether she has a lawyer in the US to represent her.
The indictment also charged four Iranians with conspiracy, attempts to commit computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft.
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