Ex-FBI agent abducted in Iran in 2007 worked for CIA

A former FBI agent, who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago, had been working for the CIA.

Robert Levinson traveled to the Iranian Island of Kish in March 2007 to investigate corruption, the Washington Post reports.

During that time, he was discussing the renewal of a CIA contract that he had held for several years and also inquired about getting reimbursed for the Iran trip by the agency before he departed, according to former and current U.S. intelligence officials.

Officials said disappearance of Levinson prompted major internal investigation at Langley, but CIA had denied of reports that he went to Iran for the agency.

However, months after Levinson's abduction, e-mails and other documents revealed that he had gone to Iran at the direction of certain CIA analysts, who had no authority to run operations overseas.

The CIA later accepted that it was responsible for Levinson, while he was in Iran, and paid 2.5 million dollars to his wife as compensation and another 120,000 dollars for renewal of his husband's contract.

The last proof of Levinson being alive came about three years ago, when a video and pictures of him dressed in an orange jumpsuit, similar to those worn by detainees at the prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, were received by his family.