LEVINSON

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06466990
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2019
• Case Number: F-2014-00461
• Publication Date: December 12, 2013

Approved for Release: 2015/11/25 C06466990
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[AIN] Levinson
Thursday, December 12,2013 6:04:05 PM
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Hi all... Wanted to make sure we checked in with you about this... Anything you guys are offering? I believe ABC
News is covering it. Thx. --Mike
By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Associated Press investigation shows that a U.S. man who disappeared nearly seven
years ago in Iran was working for the CIA as part of an unapproved intelligence-gathering mission.
Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson vanished M March 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish. For years, the U.S. has
described him as a private citizen traveling on private business.
But a team of CIA analysts, with no authority to run spy operations, was paying Levinson to gather intelligence.
In response, three analysts were forced out and seven others were disciplined. The CIA paid Levinson's family
$2.5 million to pre-empt a revealing lawsuit, and the agency rewrote its rules restricting how analysts work with
outsiders.
The U.S. has had no word on LevMson's fate for nearly three years.
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Approved for Release: 2015/11/25 C06466990