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No Answers From Iran on US Man's Fate  

Jump to full article: AP, 2008-03-04
Author: LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL

Intro:

The wife of a missing former FBI agent said Tuesday she hired a lawyer in Iran to try to persuade authorities there to investigate her husband's disappearance almost a year ago.

Christine Levinson said she has received no information on the location of Robert Levinson, who turns 60 on Monday. He was last seen March 8 on the Iranian island of Kish, where he had gone to seek information on cigarette smuggling for a client of his security firm. . . .

"He had a lot of clients in the tobacco industry, but he was subcontractor."

On Sunday, the Levinsons will stage a rally to mark the first anniversary of his disappearance.

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