American who vanished in Iran was on unsanctioned CIA mission

The retired FBI agent who seemed to vanish in Iran seven years ago was on a strange unauthorized mission for the CIA that was organized by intelligence agents who did not have the authority to do so, a shocking new report has revealed. Robert Levinson, a former DEA and FBI employee who gathered intelligence in Latin America for the CIA after leaving the bureau, was long believed to have flown to an Iranian resort in 2007.