During the same visit, Ahmadinejad hinted to CBS News that Levinson may have been in Iranian custody. 'It's been much too long.'ĭuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations in New York in September 2012, Levinson's family blanketed Times Square with missing posters and ads for Levinson. 'There isn't any pressure on Iran to resolve this,' she said. Levinson's family has held the photos for months - one of the signs apparently references his fourth year in captivity - but his wife, Christine, told the AP she decided to release them to the public now because her husband's case wasn't getting enough attention from the government. The careful procedure - or tradecraft in spy talk - that the perpetrators used to get the images to Levinson's family without leaving any other trace was simply too good to be an amateur job, intelligence officials said, according to the AP. The Associated Press reported that intelligence officials suspect the Iranian government, specifically its intelligence services, was behind the production of the proof of life video and new images. government has repeatedly asked the Iranian government's help in finding him. 'Īuthorities either do not know or have not publicly identified Levinson's suspected captors, but the U.S. 'This is the result of 30 years serving for USA,' says another. 'I Am Here in Guantanamo Do You Know Where It Is?' reads the sign. government's detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 160 suspected Taliban fighters and al Qaeda members are held. One of the signs makes reference to the U.S. In the new images provided to ABC News and other outlets, the first made public since a 2010 'proof of life' video was released in December 2011, Levinson stares blankly into the camera for the five photos, his face framed by wild white hair and an unkempt white beard. Robert Levinson was kidnapped while on a business trip to Iran's Kish Island in 2007. In each he holds a sign, one of which reads 'Help me.' 8, 2013 — - The family of a former FBI agent who was kidnapped in Iran has released a new series of images of the 64-year-old man, showing him draped in chains and dressed in what appears to be a mock prison uniform.

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