FREE MISSING MAN: THE AMERICAN SPY WHO VANISHED IN IRAN PDF Barry Meier | 288 pages | 03 May 2016 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374210458 | English | United States Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran by Barry Meier Suspicion immediately pointed to Iranian security officers. As a private investigator, Mr. Levinson was traveling under an assumed name, ostensibly trying to track sellers of counterfeit cigarettes on behalf of a client, British American Tobacco. But he also had a sub rosa purpose. On his own Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran, he hoped to recruit as a CIA informant, a man who was born as Teddy Belfield, converted to Islam while a student at Howard University, and took the name Dawud Salahuddin. Inon behalf of anti- Shah Iranian radicals, Salahuddin posed as a postal carrier and shot dead a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Washington at his Bethesda home. He told investigators and journalists who were friends with Mr. Levinson seized what he saw as an opportunity to tighten his relationship with the CIA. The association began at a conference on Russian organized crime inwhere Mr. She and her husband socialized with Mr. Levinson on his trips to Washington, exchanging stories about Russian gangsters. Given Mr. Jablonski saw him as a source of information on international crime. Through her efforts, the CIA signed him to a one-year contract to provide reports on money laundering and smuggling. Levinson was productive. Jablonski did not know that Mr. Meier apparently means Ms. But Ms. Levinson entered a touchy area at the CIA. Rules are rather plain that analysts cannot become involved in clandestine operations overseas. Such is the exclusive province of the Directorate of Operations. As Mr. Although Mr. Meier interviewed Ms. Jablonski at length, his book is unclear as to whether she was aware of Mr. He left before the request was approved. Iran finally acknowledged it was holding Mr. Levinson in in an attempt to escape sanctions for its nuclear program. Its price: the United States must delay the release of a report on its nuclear program compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Obama administration refused to pay the price. Two alleged American spies Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran traded on signing of the nuclear pact with Iran ; Mr. Levinson was not among them. The aftermath cost Ms. Jablonski her job, although Mr. Meier quotes Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran as denying she violated rules. Levinson remains among the missing — a year-old man with seven children and severe heart problems. The moral? Even spies, and especially their handlers, should play by the rules. Manage Newsletters. 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Barry Meier, an award-winning investigative reporter for The New In lateAmericans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in was there on a mission for the CIA. Barry Meier, an award-winning investigative reporter for The New York Timesdraws on years of interviews and never-before-disclosed CIA files to weave together a riveting narrative of the ex-agent's journey to Iran and the hunt to rescue him. The result is an extraordinary tale about the shadowlands between crime, business, espionage, and the law, where secrets are currency and betrayal is commonplace. Its colorful cast includes CIA operatives, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers, White House officials, gangsters, private eyes, FBI agents, journalists, and a fugitive American terrorist and assassin. Missing Man is a fast-paced story that moves through exotic locales and is set against the backdrop of the twilight war between the United States and Iran, one in which hostages are used as political pawns. Filled with stunning revelations, it chronicles a family's ongoing search for answers and one man's desperate struggle to keep his hand in the game. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Other Editions 5. Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Missing Manplease sign up. Is this book available at the libraries? Barry Meier Yes, some libraries are carrying. See 2 questions about Missing Man…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 04, Anne Martin rated it really liked it Shelves: goodreads-arc. It took me a while to finish this book. Not at all because it was boring, but because of the amount of names and information it holds. Many times, you have to read a page several times and go back to check who is who. Bob Levinson was an FBI agent for 30 years and decided to retire, get his pension and look for other jobs on the side to finance his children studies. His pension would It took me a while to finish this book. Now, he had to find other jobs as some kind of a PI. With some jobs for tobacco companies worried about the copies of their cigarettes sold in a lot of places in the world plus some other small contracts, he thought he would have enough money to tie the ends. But amazingly, a lot of the info he gathered would have been especially interesting for the C. Bob was in friendly terms with the person he connected with at the CIA, Anne Jablonski, and had lots of leads for her. Bob kept sending more and more memos and emails to Anne, asking for more funding and promising great results. When you read the mails exchanged between Bob and Anne, it feels like the usual dance between a man and a woman, the man pushing for more, the woman trying to slow him down, without telling him to get lost. It feels like Anne hoped getting information from Bob, but without paying, or paying as late as possible. For Bob, though, in dire Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran of money, all those mails he got as answers, telling him he was wonderful and his info was greatly appreciated just fueled his desire to serve his country and improve everything In the beginning ofBob wanted to get to the island of Tisch, which belongs to Iran, but can be accessed by foreigners without a visa to meet with a radical-Islamist who could give him good tips. He went to Dubai, left for a day on the island and vanished. Since MarchBob has disappeared. A video of him was sent by his captors -no matter who they are to his family innothing since. The CIA contested any involvement with Bob, until the trail of paper and electronics trapped them. But in the 9 years since he disappeared, Nothing has permitted to find or trace Bob. Is he still alive? Difficult not to be shocked by Kerry's discussions with Iran when Bob's name was not even mentioned. Difficult to accept Iran's exigences of liberation of their prisoners in the US, without the US making the same demands for Bob. But according to the book, that is what happened. The great weakness of this book is the lack of ending. Bob is still, if alive, into the hands Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran Iran or Iran's friends, and nobody knows anything. It leaves you with the feeling you left earth for a few hours and immersed yourself in a world of corruption, blackmail, lust and money, lots of money Of course, the book is disappointing. I kept Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran something new would happen, though I googled Levinson, and read no one knows what happened. Maybe, one say, we will learn the truth. For now, I'm left with a very unpleasant feeling that you cannot trust anybody. View all 3 comments. May 25, Philip rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction4-starsprisonerspy-fact. None of the lead characters come off particularly well here. That said though, both Levinson and his CIA "handler" Anne Jablonski were definitely way off the reservation - there are excellent reasons the CIA separates the spooks from the analysts. As noted by the book's only other reviewer so far, there are a lot of names to remember and try to keep straight here, but Meier includes a helpful index so you can go back Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran remind yourself of just who's who. Sadly, there has not been - below is the latest posting on Chris Levinson's " www. My children and I ask those same questions every day. But, as difficult as it has been for us, we know that Bob is living a nightmare that is times worse.