Robert Levinson spent more than 20 years in the FBI tracking down the usual suspects, from forgers and drug dealers to Russian mobsters. But it was his work as a private eye, ostensibly on the trail of cigarette smugglers, that got him into trouble.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
The CIA and NSA Want You to Be Their Friend on Facebook
The online social-networking service Facebook works for finding old classmates or arranging happy hours, so why not use it to help recruit the next generation of spies? That’s what’s happening now in cyberspace, as the country’s intelligence community turns to such sites to attract a wider range of résumés.
The Mystery of the Ex-FBI Agent Missing in Iran
Christine Levinson is hoping for news, any news, about her husband, a former FBI agent who disappeared under strange circumstances in Iran nearly two years ago. Robert Levinson was reportedlyl working as a self-employed private investigator on the trail of cigarette smugglers on the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf when he vanished...