1990 Press Photo Brian Ross Ira Silverman | Historic Images
https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/dfpa26095
Caption: INVESTIGATIVE TEAM BRAIN ROSS AND IRA SILVERMAN - NBC News investigative reporting team of correspondent Brian Ross and producer Ira Silverman are featured in NBC News. The front and back of this photograph are pictured below.
hmmm....Ira Silverman...
There is another theory for Mr Levinson’s journey to Kish – a possible media connection. In 2002, Ira Silverman, a former NBC chief investigative producer, went to Tehran to meet Mr Salahuddin and wrote about him in the New Yorker magazine. He noted that his capture “would be a triumph for law enforcement”, but also argued that “from an intelligence perspective” he would be “more useful left in place” because of his access to the inner circles in Iran . Mr Silverman was also a friend of Mr Levinson and Mr Shoffler. Acquaintances believe he introduced Mr Levinson to the fugitive with a documentary in mind. Mr Silverman declined to be interviewed for this article. A US official, who asked not to be named, said US authorities also suspected that Mr Levinson was on a media mission. He did not name Mr Silverman. ----- Missing American Feared a Victim of 'Dirty War,' Financial Times, April 13, 2007
Mr Levinson disappeared on March 8 [2007] after a six-hour meeting on the Iranian island of Kish with Dawud Salahuddin, an American who converted to Islam and was recruited by revolutionaries to assassinate an Iranian opposition activist near Washington in 1980.----- Missing American Feared a Victim of 'Dirty War,' Financial Times, April 13, 2007