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Wife of missing ex-FBI agent gets no news in Iran 

Jump to full article: Reuters, 2007-12-22
Author: Fredrik Dahl

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - The wife of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran nine months ago said on Saturday she had not been able to find out what had happened to her husband during a four-day visit to the Islamic state to search for him.

"Our trip is almost over and the miracle we were hoping for has not happened," Christine Levinson told a news conference in Tehran together with her son Daniel and her sister Suzan.

"We still don't know where Bob is and the nightmare I and my family are experiencing will continue."

Robert Levinson, who retired from the FBI a decade ago, traveled from Dubai to Iran's Gulf resort island of Kish on March 8 to investigate counterfeiting and smuggling of cigarettes for a client, likely a tobacco company, according to his family.

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