Iran: Search for Missing FBI Agent Has Yielded No Results

Source: Washington Post

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 7, 2007; 1:18 PM

Three months after former FBI agent Robert A. Levinson disappeared on Iran's Kish Island, Iran has told the State Department that its investigation into his whereabouts has produced no information, senior State Department officials said today.

The letter from Iran's foreign ministry, delivered Wednesday through the Swiss government, came seven weeks after the State Department's fifth communication to Tehran. That message contained detailed and specific leads to help determine Levinson's location and health, the officials said. The terse response from Tehran elicited skepticism and concern within the Bush administration.

"The message we received from the Iranian government contradicts information that we have seen in media reports and other sources," said Dave Foley, spokesman for the State Department's Near East Affairs Bureau. "It is difficult for us to believe that the Iranian government has no knowledge about what happened to Mr. Levinson, who went missing while visiting Kish Island on March 8."



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Sure he wasn't visiting Kish Island to buy some appliances?

Source: Associated Press


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6698110,00.html