Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) said he pressed the Associated Press to not publish its story on the ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran and had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency.
“I urged the editor of AP not to run the story,” Nelson said Friday according to The Washington Post. Nelson said he went to Associated Press executive editor Kathleen Carroll to try and prevent the story from being published.
On Thursday the AP published a report on Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007. The AP report confirmed that, while the U.S. had identified him as a private citizen for years, he had actually been working for the CIA. The AP report said it had confirmed Levinson’s connections to the CIA back in 2010 and then delayed publishing the story three times before finally releasing it.
