THE FBI has offered a $200,000 reward for the capture of an ex-US Air Force counterintelligence officer charged with spying for Iran.

Monica Witt, an ex-defense contractor and intelligence technical sergeant was hit with federal charges of espionage in February 2019.

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The FBI is hunting for Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force officer charged with spying for Iran Credit: FBI

A $200,000 reward has now been offered for information leading to her capture Credit: AP

This included the transmission of national defense information to the Iranian government.

The now 47-year-old served in the US military between 1997 and 2008.

She then worked as a US government contractor until 2010 and defected to Iran in 2013, according to the FBI.

While serving in the US Air Force, she had access to highly sensitive and top secret foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information including the identities of undercover personnel working for US intelligence.

Witt defected to Iran in 2013 and is currently at-large, per the FBI Credit: AP:Associated Press

“Monica Witt allegedly betrayed her oath to the Constitution more than a decade ago by defecting to Iran and providing the Iranian regime National Defense Information and likely continues to support their nefarious activities,” FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division Special Agent Daniel Wierzbicki said.

“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.”

Her known aliases are Fatemah Zahra and Narges Witt.

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