Dec 6, 2007 6:26 pm US/Eastern
Wife Of Missing Man Heads To Iran To Find Answers
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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59-year old Robert Levinson, a former FBI Agent who lives in Coral Springs, went missing while on a business trip to Iran.
bbc.co.uk
The wife and son of a missing Coral Springs man plan to leave for Tehran this month to press the Iranian government to release what they know about his whereabouts.
59-year old Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent in New York and Florida was last seen in March 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.
His wife, Christine, believes he's still in Iran because his name has not shown up on any flight manifests of planes leaving the country/ Also his passport, which has been flagged, has not been used anywhere.
The Iranian government has denied any knowledge of Levinson despite repeated requests on his whereabouts by the State Department through Swiss intermediaries.
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.
Salahuddin has said that he was suddenly taken into custody by Iranian police while the two men were in a hotel lobby. Salahuddin said when he was released hours later, he returned to the hotel and discovered Levinson was gone.
Christine Levinson and her old son oldest son, 22-year-old Daniel, hope to meet with authorities in Tehran and Kish during their visit.
"We keep praying," Christine Levinson said. "I tell my kids, `When dad comes home we want to make him proud of us. Keep looking forward."'
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