Associated Press Held CIA Scoop For 3 Years At The Government's Request

NEW YORK -- The Associated Press revealed Thursday that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson was working with the CIA at the time he went missing in Iran in 2007. The AP's explosive report on Levinson's CIA ties contradicted the U.S. government’s long-running contention that he was visiting Iran as a private citizen when he disappeared.

The AP acknowledged learning about Levinson’s ties to the CIA in 2010, but held the story at the government’s request while reporting details.

According to the article, The AP “agreed three times to delay publishing the story because the U.S. government said it was pursuing promising leads to get him home.” The AP chose to publish now, it noted, because efforts to find Levinson “have repeatedly come up empty.”

AP executive editor Kathleen Carroll said in a statement Thursday that “publishing this article was a difficult decision.”

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