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U.S. Officials Believe Ex-FBI Agent Who Disappeared In Iran In 2007 Is Dead

Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran while on an unauthorized mission for the CIA, is now presumed dead, White House officials and his family say.

Updated at 4:50 a.m. ET

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007 while on an unauthorized mission in Iran for the CIA, is now presumed dead, White House officials and his family said Wednesday.

"We recently received information from U.S. officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father

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