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.
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.
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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!
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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.