Clinton calls for Iran’s help in return of American citizen and CIA asset

by Ben Kamisar - 09/30/16 5:06 PM ET

Hillary Clinton called on Iran to help America locate an American citizen and CIA asset who went missing while traveling to the country nine years ago.

{mosads}The Democratic presidential nominee had been part of the Obama administration’s efforts to find Robert Levinson while she served as secretary of State. But the White House admitted in January that it doesn’t believe he’s in the country anymore.

“My heart goes out to Bobs’s family,” Clinton said at a rally Friday in Levinson’s home town of Coral Springs, Fla.

“He disappeared in Iran more than nine years ago and it’s long past time for the Iranian regime to provide us with information about his whereabouts and let him return home to his family.”

While Levinson had been labeled an American tourist in the years after his 2007 disappearance in Iran, The Associated Press disclosed in 2013 that he had been working with the CIA at the time he went missing.

Former intelligence officials told The Daily Beast earlier this year that the administration does not have faith that the Iranian government knows where Levinson is.

Levinson was not included in the prisoner exchange between the two countries earlier this year. But President Obama mentioned him in a speech announcing the release, promising that “we will never rest again” until Levinson was brought home.

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