Family of American missing in Iran plans Florida rally

Family of American missing in Iran plans Florida rally, The ancestors of a above FBI abettor who abolished in Iran nine years ago while on a CIA mission is captivation a assemblage Saturday ambitious that the U.S. government accumulate blame for his freedom.

Robert Levinson, 67, abolished from Iran's Kish Island in March 2007. A 2013 Associated Press analysis appear that the affiliated ancestor of seven was animate for the CIA on an crooked intelligence-gathering mission to accumulate advice about Iran's nuclear program.

If Levinson charcoal alive, he has been captivated bound best than any American, best than AP announcer Terry Anderson, who was captivated added than six years in Beirut in the 1980s. Unlike Anderson, Levinson's abode and captors abide a mystery. U.S. admiral accept the Iranian government was abaft his disappearance. It has denied that.

The case drew renewed absorption in January if Levinson was not allotment of a captive bandy amid the U.S. and Iranian governments that set chargeless four added Americans who had been captivated in Iran's custody.

The FBI says it investigates every advance and charcoal committed to award Levinson and bringing him home. A $5 actor accolade for advice arch to his abode charcoal in effect.

Levinson's ancestors insists he is still alive, even with bloom issues including diabetes, gout and top claret pressure. They endure got video and photos of him about 5 years ago.

The 2013 AP analysis showed that in a aperture of the a lot of basal CIA rules, a aggregation of analysts — with no ascendancy to run spy operations — paid Levinson to accumulate intelligence from hotspots about the world, including the Middle East and Latin America.

The official adventure if Levinson abolished was that he was in Iran on clandestine business, either to investigate cigarette smuggling or to plan on a book about Russian organized crime. It has a attendance on Kish, a day-tripper island.

In fact, he was affair a source, an American fugitive, Dawud Salahuddin. He is capital for killing a above Iranian agent in Maryland in 1980. In interviews, Salahuddin has accepted killing the diplomat.

The CIA paid Levinson's ancestors $2.5 actor to pre-empt a absolute lawsuit, and the bureau rewrote its rules akin how analysts can plan with outsiders. Three analysts who had been animate with Levinson absent their jobs.
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