U.S. Says Long Missing Ex-FBI Agent Levinson Likely Died in Iran
Robert Levinson: right, how he would look like now after five years in captivity; center, taken from the video, released by his kidnappers: and before he was kidnapped, left.
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Senior U.S. government officials publicly acknowledged on Monday that Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent taken hostage in Iran more than 13 years ago, most likely died in captivity, a conclusion his family said they came to earlier this year.
Levinson disappeared in Iran in 2007 after being arrested entering from the Persian Gulf island of Kish. In March his family announced U.S. officials told them they recently concluded Levinson died in Iranian custody prior to the coronavirus pandemic, but didn’t know when or how.