據報在伊朗失蹤的美國人是爲中情局工作

Two U.S. media outlets are reporting that an American man who mysteriously disappeared nearly seven years ago in Iran was conducting a rogue operation for the CIA.

The Associated Press and Washington Post say Robert Levinson was gathering intelligence for a group of CIA analysts who did not have authority to run overseas operations.

The ex-FBI agent disappeared in March 2007 while visiting the Iranian island of Kish, on what his family and U.S. government officials have described as a private business trip.

But the reports Thursday said Levinson was actually meeting with Dawud Salahuddin, who is wanted for the murder of an Iranian diplomat in the U.S. in 1980 and has close ties to Iranian leaders.

The reports say Levinson's lawyers discovered emails in which a CIA analyst assured Levinson before the trip that he would be reimbursed for his expenses.兩家美國媒體報道說，將近七年前在伊朗境內神祕失蹤的一名美國男子是爲美國中央情報局執行任務。

美聯社和華盛頓郵報說，羅伯特•萊文森爲一組中情局分析員蒐集情報，而這些分析員沒有得到執行國外任務的授權。

前美國聯邦調查局特工萊文森於2007年3月失蹤，當時他在伊朗的基什島。萊文森的家人和美國政府官員說，他是因私人業務去基什島的。

但星期四的報道說，萊文森實際上是去基什島與達烏德•薩拉胡丁會面。薩拉胡丁由於1980年參與在美國謀殺一名伊朗外交官而受到通緝，他與伊朗領導人關係密切。

報道說，萊文森的律師在電郵中發現，一名中情局分析員在萊文森前往基什島之前向他保證，他此行的費用可以報銷。