He really knew nothing about the Middle East or Iran. He actually spent his career investigating Russian organized crime and Colombian drug lords. MEIER: Bob Levinson was in an interesting point is his life. Even though he had no formal CIA authorization. Levinson traveled to Kish, a resort island off Iran's coast. The writer now believes Levinson wanted to recruit a potential informant who could give the CIA insight into that country.
Meier's new book, "The Missing Man," examines Levinson's mission. They had a contract showing Levinson worked for the CIA. So if he wasn't tracking cigarette smugglers, why did Levinson really go to Iran? Barry Meier contacted Robert Levinson's family. And this story did not jive with the folks that I spoke to. We would send a local who spoke the language, who knew their way around. We would never send a big, old, white, ex-FBI agent with a Jewish name into Iran to investigate a case. All of them said to me, this is the craziest thing I've ever heard. And the feedback that I got from them was identical. Not long afterward, New York Times reporter Barry Meier wondered if that cover story made any sense.īARRY MEIER: I started calling investigators who worked on cigarette cases. MARTIN: Levinson was supposedly investigating cigarette smugglers when he vanished back in 2007. And he is still missing, even after other Americans in Iran were recently released. He was a former FBI agent who became a private investigator. It's the disappearance of Robert Levinson, last seen years ago in Iran.
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