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Wife Plans Iran Trip to Find Husband
By PAT MILTON
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Christine Levinson's husband vanished while on a business trip to Iran. Five months later, she's going there to try to bring him back.
The mother of the couple's seven children is planning her own trip to Iran in search of husband Robert Levinson even though she's been advised by the State Department not to travel to Iran because of the risk.
The 6-foot-4 burly Levinson was last seen March 8 on Kish Island, a resort off the southern coast of Iran,
where he had gone to seek information on cigarette smuggling for a client of his security firm. snip
A former FBI agent in New York and Florida who retired in 1998, Levinson usually called home twice a day and text-messaged his wife and the kids often from his cell phone on business trips. snip
The details of Levinson's trip to Kish remain murky. Levinson found out that her husband apparently met with Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive living in Iran who is wanted for the assassination of a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland in 1980.