Missing ex-FBI agent's family worried
By BRIAN SKOLOFF
Associated Press Writer
Alan Diaz
The entrance of the Isles East, a gated community, where Robert A. Levinson lives, is shown in Coral Springs, Fla., Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Levinson, a former FBI agent was reported missing while on a business trip to Iran several weeks ago.
Iran to look for missing U.S. man
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --Relatives of a former FBI agent who has been missing in Iran for three weeks said Wednesday they are worried and doing everything possible to find him. U.S. officials, meanwhile, downplayed the disappearance as routine.
Robert Levinson, 59, of Coral Springs, was last seen March 11 on the Iranian resort island of Kish. He was said to be working on a film on the island, known for its beaches, sea turtles and relatively liberal atmosphere.
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Iran's state news agency IRNA quoted Kish officials Tuesday as saying there was no evidence that Levinson had disappeared, but it gave no details on his whereabouts.
Levinson was an FBI agent in New York and Florida known for busting Italian and Russian mobsters. His work also helped bring down Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, said Guy Lewis, the former U.S. attorney in Miami.
"Part of his work was developing information on the Medellin drug cartel which, of course, walked us straight into the Noriega case," Lewis said.
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