Robert Levinson Family: Despite Iran Pledge, No New Info on Missing Ex-FBI Agent, Ahead of the ninth ceremony of her husband’s abstruse dematerialization in Iran, the wife of above FBI abettor Robert Levinson said the Islamic Republic’s promises to advice acquisition him accept yet to acknowledge any new advice in the case, abundant beneath accompany the 67-year-old grandfathering aback to his family.
Christine Levinson said she “never could accept imagined” she would still be cat-and-mouse for the acknowledgment of her bedmate about a decade afterwards he abolished off Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 2007.
“I anticipation it would be a amount of days, and now it’s been nine years,” she told ABC News Tuesday. “Some of my accouchement alarm me at midnight or later, crying, because they can’t stop cerebration about Bob. They don’t apperceive what to do. [They call] added so now, nine years later, in some cases than they did before.”
For years the U.S. government maintained that Levinson was animate as a clandestine investigator if he was taken hostage, but again in backward 2013 the Levinson ancestors accustomed he was in fact animate as a freelance “spy” for a rogue CIA operation. Admitting an Iranian columnist address canicule afterwards his dematerialization adumbrated he was getting captivated by Iranian authorities, the Iranian government has aback long-denied captivation Levinson or even animate area he is -- the closing affirmation doubted by some U.S. admiral and Levinson’s family.
The endure best adventitious to get Levinson home, the ancestors says, flew by in January if the U.S. government traded seven Iranian prisoners for 5 Americans captivated in Iran -- a accord that did not cover abandon for Robert Levinson.
Still, Secretary of State John Kerry said at the time that Levinson was “very, actual much” a allotment of the beyond agreement and said that the Iranians “have agreed to abide to advice us try to acquisition the abode and whatever may or may not accept happened to Bob Levinson.”
“I feel abhorrent for the [Levinson] family,” Kerry said in January. “I apperceive it’s actual difficult for them.”
Two months later, Christine Levinson said there doesn’t arise to accept been any change in Levinson’s case, and if the Iranians accept provided any new information, it hasn’t gotten to her. But she’s captivation out achievement and said she has no best but to yield the Iranians “at their word.”
Today White House Columnist Secretary Josh Earnest appear a account adage Levinson "remains a top antecedence for the United States, and we abide to additional no accomplishment to accompany him home."
"We abide to alarm aloft the Islamic Republic of Iran to accommodate abetment in his case, as agreed to as allotment of the captive barter accomplished beforehand this year, so that we can accompany Mr. Levinson home," Earnest said.
Ellen Glasser, above admiral of the Society of Above Special Agents of the FBI, told ABC News that she is assertive Iranian admiral apperceive actually how to acquisition Levinson. She aswell blames the U.S. government in allotment for Levinson’s acute predicament, as it has still not clearly accepted Levinson’s affiliation to the CIA, continued afterwards such an acceptance may accept been useful.
“It’s like a bent case,” said the 24-year FBI veteran, “the abbreviate aeon afterwards the abomination has occurred, that’s the analytical time aeon to get somebody released. So I accept that afterwards Bob was taken, admired time was absent as the government, the CIA in particular, was aggravating to amount out how they were traveling to handle this. I can’t acquaint you how abundant was lost, but I anticipate that was gross mishandling, absolutely.”
Christine Levinson said the Iranians accept consistently asked what her bedmate was accomplishing on Kish.
“I accept that afflicted a lot of things and still affects things. I do accept that would’ve gotten Bob home, if they would accept accepted it,” she said.
And admitting about a decade has gone by, Christine said she has not accustomed up achievement that her bedmate is animate and will anytime airing aback through her door. In the meantime, she said the ancestors is in atrocious charge of at atomic some affectionate of affidavit activity -- like the video and photos the ancestors accustomed in 2010 and 2011.
“We accept never, aback the video or the pictures, accustomed any advice about what has to be done to get Bob home. We charge affidavit of activity and we charge to apperceive that he’s okay, or we charge them to let us apperceive that he’s not okay,” Christine Levinson said. “We wish to apperceive what happened to him and we wish him home anon and we wish to apperceive what has to be done to accomplish that happen.”
Earlier this anniversary Levinson’s accouchement acquaint a video on YouTube assuming the ex-FBI abettor in happier times, amidst by ancestors and friends. Text in black video reads, “We charge added than just a affiance of advice from Iran. We charge answers. We charge Bob Levinson beatific home… We will never stop. Advice Bob Levinson.”
Christine Levinson said she “never could accept imagined” she would still be cat-and-mouse for the acknowledgment of her bedmate about a decade afterwards he abolished off Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 2007.
“I anticipation it would be a amount of days, and now it’s been nine years,” she told ABC News Tuesday. “Some of my accouchement alarm me at midnight or later, crying, because they can’t stop cerebration about Bob. They don’t apperceive what to do. [They call] added so now, nine years later, in some cases than they did before.”
For years the U.S. government maintained that Levinson was animate as a clandestine investigator if he was taken hostage, but again in backward 2013 the Levinson ancestors accustomed he was in fact animate as a freelance “spy” for a rogue CIA operation. Admitting an Iranian columnist address canicule afterwards his dematerialization adumbrated he was getting captivated by Iranian authorities, the Iranian government has aback long-denied captivation Levinson or even animate area he is -- the closing affirmation doubted by some U.S. admiral and Levinson’s family.
The endure best adventitious to get Levinson home, the ancestors says, flew by in January if the U.S. government traded seven Iranian prisoners for 5 Americans captivated in Iran -- a accord that did not cover abandon for Robert Levinson.
Still, Secretary of State John Kerry said at the time that Levinson was “very, actual much” a allotment of the beyond agreement and said that the Iranians “have agreed to abide to advice us try to acquisition the abode and whatever may or may not accept happened to Bob Levinson.”
“I feel abhorrent for the [Levinson] family,” Kerry said in January. “I apperceive it’s actual difficult for them.”
Two months later, Christine Levinson said there doesn’t arise to accept been any change in Levinson’s case, and if the Iranians accept provided any new information, it hasn’t gotten to her. But she’s captivation out achievement and said she has no best but to yield the Iranians “at their word.”
Today White House Columnist Secretary Josh Earnest appear a account adage Levinson "remains a top antecedence for the United States, and we abide to additional no accomplishment to accompany him home."
"We abide to alarm aloft the Islamic Republic of Iran to accommodate abetment in his case, as agreed to as allotment of the captive barter accomplished beforehand this year, so that we can accompany Mr. Levinson home," Earnest said.
Ellen Glasser, above admiral of the Society of Above Special Agents of the FBI, told ABC News that she is assertive Iranian admiral apperceive actually how to acquisition Levinson. She aswell blames the U.S. government in allotment for Levinson’s acute predicament, as it has still not clearly accepted Levinson’s affiliation to the CIA, continued afterwards such an acceptance may accept been useful.
“It’s like a bent case,” said the 24-year FBI veteran, “the abbreviate aeon afterwards the abomination has occurred, that’s the analytical time aeon to get somebody released. So I accept that afterwards Bob was taken, admired time was absent as the government, the CIA in particular, was aggravating to amount out how they were traveling to handle this. I can’t acquaint you how abundant was lost, but I anticipate that was gross mishandling, absolutely.”
Christine Levinson said the Iranians accept consistently asked what her bedmate was accomplishing on Kish.
“I accept that afflicted a lot of things and still affects things. I do accept that would’ve gotten Bob home, if they would accept accepted it,” she said.
And admitting about a decade has gone by, Christine said she has not accustomed up achievement that her bedmate is animate and will anytime airing aback through her door. In the meantime, she said the ancestors is in atrocious charge of at atomic some affectionate of affidavit activity -- like the video and photos the ancestors accustomed in 2010 and 2011.
“We accept never, aback the video or the pictures, accustomed any advice about what has to be done to get Bob home. We charge affidavit of activity and we charge to apperceive that he’s okay, or we charge them to let us apperceive that he’s not okay,” Christine Levinson said. “We wish to apperceive what happened to him and we wish him home anon and we wish to apperceive what has to be done to accomplish that happen.”
Earlier this anniversary Levinson’s accouchement acquaint a video on YouTube assuming the ex-FBI abettor in happier times, amidst by ancestors and friends. Text in black video reads, “We charge added than just a affiance of advice from Iran. We charge answers. We charge Bob Levinson beatific home… We will never stop. Advice Bob Levinson.”
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