Senator offers to go to Iran for CIA contractor
Source: Associated Press
Senator offers to go to Iran for CIA contractor
By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press
Updated 1:18 pm, Tuesday, December 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senator says he's willing to go to Iran if it would help find missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson.
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida made the offer in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday.
Levinson disappeared in Iran in 2007. For years, the government falsely said Levinson was traveling on private business. But he was really a CIA contractor traveling on an unauthorized mission to collect intelligence.
The U.S. has not had "proof of life" in years— Levinson's family last received photos and video of him in late 2010 and early 2011 — and is not sure who is holding him.
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