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Spy Books Worth A Damn: “Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran”

Posted on 12 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Mising Man

MISSING MAN: THE AMERICAN SPY WHO VANISHED IN IRAN

By Barry Meier

Farrar Straus Giroux, $27.00,  273 pp.

The American public — especially the media — tends to demand, “Who’s to blame?” when a person vanishes in a foreign land with no explanation as to why, or whether, he is being held.

Such is the case with Robert Levinson, former FBI agent, private investigator and CIA contractor, who was snatched by unknown parties on the Iranian-owned island of Kish in 2013. Suspicion immediately pointed to Iranian security officers.

As a private investigator, Mr. Levinson was traveling under an assumed name, ostensibly trying to track sellers of counterfeit cigarettes on behalf of a client, British American Tobacco.

 But he also had a sub rosa purpose. On his own initiative, he hoped to recruit as a CIA informant, a man who was born as Teddy Belfield, converted to Islam while a student at Howard University, and took the name Dawud Salahuddin. In 1980, on behalf of anti-Shah Iranian radicals, Salahuddin posed as a postal carrier and shot dead a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Washington at his Bethesda home.

Salahuddin fled to Iran, but soon tired of the mullahs’ government. He told investigators and journalists who were friends with Mr. Levinsonthan he had “secrets of enormous value to U.S. intelligence” because of his access to officials in the regime. Mr. Levinson seized what he saw as an opportunity to tighten his relationship with the CIA.

Read the Remainder at Washington Times

 

0 thoughts on “Spy Books Worth A Damn: “Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran””

  1. oldpoet56 says:
    12 May 2016 at 16:27

    This life style that people in every country employ to do this work, is so dangerous in so many ways. Yet ‘no man left behind’ needs to mean something all of the time, or it means nothing at all!

  2. oldpoet56 says:
    12 May 2016 at 16:29

    Reblogged this on Truth Troubles: Why people hate the truths' of the real world and commented:
    Reblogging this mans work I count as an honor to get to do it. His material is constantly an excellent read. Give him a few moments to see what you think.

  3. Hammerhead says:
    12 May 2016 at 19:20

    Well Said. Unfortunately in Espionage work, you sign a contract that states if you are caught your country will DISAVOW your existence. That is why the first rule of spying is DO NOT GET CAUGHT.

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