3:45 p.m.
The family and colleagues of a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran nine years ago while on a CIA mission are expressing anger and disappointment that he wasn't part of a January prisoner exchange with Tehran.
Retired FBI agent Ellen Glasser told several hundred people at a rally on Saturday for Robert Levinson that the Obama administration should have pressed Iran to release the 67-year-old South Florida resident when it released four other Americans.
If Levinson remains alive, he has been held captive longer than any American. Levinson's whereabouts remain a mystery. U.S. officials believe the Iranian government was behind his disappearance. It has denied that.
Levinson's wife Christine and his seven children all told the rally that since his disappearance, he has missed weddings, the birth of grandchildren and graduations. They asked the crowd to keep pushing the U.S. government to press for his release.
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The family of a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran nine years ago while on a CIA mission is holding a rally demanding that the U.S. government keep pushing for his freedom.
The family of 67-year-old Robert Levinson is holding the rally Saturday near his South Florida home. He disappeared from Iran's Kish Island in March 2007.
A 2013 Associated Press investigation revealed that he was working for the CIA on an unauthorized intelligence-gathering mission to glean information about Iran's nuclear program.
If Levinson remains alive, he has been held captive longer than any American. Levinson's whereabouts and captors remain a mystery. U.S. officials believe the Iranian government was behind his disappearance. It has denied that.
By AP
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