It's the question that keeps me up night; is Robert Levinson, the retired FBI agent working an authorized intelligence gathering program for a group of obscenely ambitious CIA analysts, still alive in custody in Iran, after nearly twenty years? The US says it believes him to be dead, but our government's track record on honesty, when it comes to Bob, as he was known to his friends in the law enforcement world, is abysmal. Initially, the CIA reported that he had been tortured to death; later an opportunity to recover Bob was scotched when an American Secretary of State declined to make a favorable statement to the press. The case is a cover-up on steroids.
The backstory, regarding Bob's true mission in Iran, involving WMD, still hides in the classified shadows, as does the abortive Special Operations mission to extract him from his captors. In truth and in fact, there's so much more to the story than has ever been declassified, and perhaps a no-holds barred documentary is necessary to reveal it all, and to find a way to, for once and for all, determine whether he is still living in Iran, under House Arrest, and genuinely afraid to return to the United States, for reasons of his personal safety, or deceased.
Those of us who worked with Bob, and his family, deserve no less.

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