Indicted US intelligence analyst defector wore many faces in Iranian media

https://www.timesofisrael.com/indicted-us-intelligence-analyst-defector-wore-many-faces-in-iranian-media/

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The former US Air Force intelligence analyst, her brown hair now hidden underneath a mandatory hijab, stood before an Iranian ayatollah as a television camera filmed behind her.

It was 2012 and Monica Elfriede Witt offered Ayatollah Hadi Barikbin the pledge of faith all Islam converts must recite: “There is no god but God and Muhammad is His messenger.”

Yet amid congratulations for her conversion, Witt — who once held a top secret security clearance — allegedly had a dark secret: She was being recruited by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to betray her country, according to federal prosecutors.