Thursday, March 19, 2015

Left Behind

The FBI has increased its reward for information on missing American Robert Levinson from $1 million to $5 million, it announced Monday.

Levinson, a retired FBI agent, vanished after traveling to the Iranian island of Kish in March 2007 and is one of the longest-held U.S. citizens in history.

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It's unclear exactly who is holding him, but U.S. officials have said they believe he is somewhere in southwest Asia.

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Iran's government repeatedly has said it is not holding Levinson and does not know his whereabouts. The FBI says he was in Iran as a private investigator.

But news reports in 2013 said he was working as an independent CIA contractor when he disappeared.

That prompted his family to speak out, saying they kept it quiet for years that Levinson was working for the CIA, because the U.S. government had warned them that revealing it would put him in more jeopardy.

  CNN
Another family buffaloed. It’s not like whoever took him in Iran didn’t know he was CIA. The US government don’t like to acknowledge when one of theirs is captured. Code of the CIA: we will disavow any knowledge, etc.
The FBI, White House and CIA have not publicly acknowledged any connection between the CIA and Levinson.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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