Posted on 01/09/2013 1:12:31 AM PST by MestaMachine
Former FBI agent missing in Iran photographed in Guantánamo jumpsuit
By Barney Henderson
8:44PM GMT 08 Jan 2013
The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran in 2007, have released pictures of him dressed in an orange jumpsuit like a Guantánamo Bay prisoner, as they continue to hold hope that he is still alive.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Mr Levinson, a private investigator, disappeared in 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish. The Iranian government has repeatedly denied knowing anything about his disappearance.
However, the consensus among US officials involved in the case is that despite years of denials, Iran's intelligence service was almost certainly behind the 54-second video and five photographs.
An expert on Russian organised crime, Mr Levinson, who would now be 64, retired from the FBI in 1998 and became a private investigator. He was investigating cigarette smuggling in early 2007, and his family has said that took him to the Iranian island of Kish, where he was last seen.
Kish is a popular resort area and a hotbed of smuggling and organised crime. It is also a free-trade zone, meaning US citizens do not need visas to travel there.
Mr Levinson's wife, Christine, decided to release the images because she felt her husband's disappearance was not getting the attention it deserves from the US government.
"There isn't any pressure on Iran to resolve this," she said. "It's been much too long."
She said that because her husband disappeared in Iran, she believes he is still being held there.
"It needs to come front and centre again," she told The Associated Press. "There needs to be a lot more public outcry."
She said she has met with Barack Obama and John Brennan, the president's nominee to head the CIA. She said that both men had pledged to do everything they could to free her husband. Now, nearly six years after his disappearance, she thinks Iran is being let off the hook.
"He's a good man," she said. "He just doesn't deserve this."
Another forgotten American on bo’s watch.
Video at link.
Pinging the pingers
Please note the positions of his fingers on the photos. Code?
To the Benghazi ping list because you guys are good at deciphering things and stuff.
To the Benghazi ping list because you guys are good at deciphering things and stuff.
Thank you to Lucy T for bringing this article to my attention.
Besides his index finger, I am wondering if he has any other fingers on his left hand.
I’ve been looking at that very thing - - his fingers.
Hope no one tampers with that - but what do I know about technology - I really don’t.
Anyway, I’m not getting anything from the fingers - - -
One would think he’d try something, tho - - -
“Why you can not help me”
Is English his second language?
Am I the only one that thinks the sign text is photoshopped? I have no idea why it would be.
Nope, but did you notice all of the multiple line text is all right justified? Farsi reads form right to left.
“Why you can not help me”
Is English his second language?
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The signs were obviously written by his captors.
All are Right justified (aligned), as are Farsi and Arabic.
All appear to be printed, unless he is really good at calligraphy!
No but the Iranian using the computer (WordPro) is.
Chain across the back of his neck then loops down with a couple of wraps around his wrists, no cuff’s and nothing locking the chain in place. Something don’t smell right!
Maybe he’s using those fingers to operate a remote camera switch.
I cannot imagine the torture Mr. Robert Levinson has endured, and it would be more than likely Mr. Robert Levinson has endured extreme torture tactics employed by iranian intelligence. The reference to Guantánamo is most telling in relation to reference and probable torture.
Reading your theory, can understand. Who to trust, Who to trust?
“He was investigating cigarette smuggling in early 2007...”
Cigarette smuggling, really? That smells if nothing else does.
I don’t believe the cigarette smuggling story... but my guess was that he was probably being held on the extreme SE part of Kish Island.
Mesta ... the cigarette smuggling angle ... IIRC the cigarette smuggling was confined to the U.S. The cigarettes were stolen and then resold, at a price less than retail. The money was then wired out of the country from resulting money from the stolen cigarettes. This was one way the money was collected via criminal enterprise. There were numerous other ways but this was one which was relatively clean. Another criminal enterprise which operated in the U.S. was computer sales. Computers and computer parts were stolen from retailers and then resold in another location (was an actual store) run by arabs. Then money was funneled to terror organizations. I have given up two of their methods of operations. There were and are many others. btw ... since zer0 and his crowd came in ... investigations are down on these types of activities. Can produce no links ... the media is not going to discuss any of these types of activities. May be a bit off topic. Beginning to lean toward this guy was still an FBI agent work to crack a money zone collection point, and our government cannot or will not admit iran was running these types of operations within U.S. borders.
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