Exclusive: Iran Nabbed CIA Asset Levinson, Says Witness

Witness: Iran Nabbed CIA Asset Levinson
This copy photograph of a paper printout obtained by The Associated Press shows Robert Levinson. Long after he vanished in Iran, the retired FBI agent reappeared in a video and a series of photographs sent to his family over the past year, transforming a mysterious disappearance into a hostage standoff with an unknown kidnapper, The Associated Press has learned. In the video emailed to his family last November, Levinson pleaded with the U.S. government to meet the demands of his unidentified captors. (AP Photo)
This copy photograph of a paper printout obtained by The Associated Press shows Robert Levinson. Long after he vanished in Iran, the retired FBI agent reappeared in a video and a series of photographs sent to his family over the past year, transforming a mysterious disappearance into a hostage standoff with an unknown kidnapper, The Associated Press has learned. In the video emailed to his family last November, Levinson pleaded with the U.S. government to meet the demands of his unidentified captors. (AP Photo)

The last known man to see Robert Levinson alive in Iran now says that the CIA contractor who disappeared in 2007 was definitely detained by Iranian authorities and is almost certainly still in Iranian custody if he remains alive.

Dawud Salahuddin, an African-American convert to Islam who met with Mr. Levinson on Iran’s resort island of Kish in 2007, told the Monitor in Tehran that they were detained at the Maryam Hotel on March 9, 2007, by six plainclothes policemen and then separated.

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