he former military intelligence officer was so enthusiastic about turning her back on her homeland and her past that her Iranian recruiters balked, until she threatened to take her secrets to Russia instead and hand them over to WikiLeaks Witt converted to Islam in a televised ceremony in 2012 on her first trip to Tehran, at the same time as a more high-profile convert, Sean Stone, the son of US film director Oliver Stone. According to a US Treasury statement on Wednesday, the organisers of the conference were closely tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and such events were intended to provide fertile ground for recruiting spies. There can have been few recruits as willing as Witt, as portrayed by US prosecutors. As well as converting to the Shia faith, the 33-year Texan appeared in videos heartily repudiating her government. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...s-intelligence-officer-to-alleged-iranian-spy Monica Witt was an officer in the unit to decode codes, where she was exposed to the most classified information, and participated in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that changed her perception of her homeland. Hence, it has become an easy prey for Iranian intelligence, which is amazed by her determination to go over and reveal hidden secrets. The story of a filthy spy
Divided loyalties, a paradox of the HUMINT game is that to achieve anything you need people with the correct language skills and appearance but those same people are subject to the pull of their second culture.
Yes, changed her perception of her homeland, the curtain was drawn away and she saw the crimes of her homeland's government. Basically a whistleblower who is also a spook. It is the Age of Snowden.
Interesting... I wonder if it's naïveté...or lack of ability to see shades of grey... the view of bad vs good, one side has to be bad and the other good....can't be good vs good and sometimes bad vs bad.. with a myriad of varieties in the middle
