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(This thread is already long enough so I’m not going to speculate on what I think, but there’s plenty out there if you want to go chasing rabbits.)
So Levinson gets kidnapped in March 2007 and his disappearance was acknowledged by George Bush in June 2007 as “concerning.”But no one from the federal government will admit that Levinson was working for the CIA.
Unbeknownst to anyone at the time,from 2009-2011 the FBI was running its own covert operation to get their retired agent backand they had devised an ingenious plan to keep thewhole thing off the books:
they contracted with a Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, to pay for the rescue mission ($20 million in total) in exchange for a fast tracked green cards for Deripaska and his family.
Enter: David McGee. During his time at the DOJ McGee worked an organized crime task force. That’s how he knew Bob Levinson- who specialized in Russian money laundering. McGee became a liaison between the Levinson family and Deripaska.
(Now let me just stop right here and say this whole thing is NUTS and stinks to high heavens. To make matters worse,who was the FBI point man on the Deripaska deal? Andrew McCabe. Yep. That Andrew McCabe.)
Anywho, the FBI team gets a couple proof of life videos and they have a soft arrangement in placewhen the Clinton State Department steps in and shuts the whole thing down. Something got them spooked. What that was has never been disclosed.
After 2011 Levinson is never heard from again. All along the Iranians deny any involvement in his disappearance (expected) so eventually the CIA gets desperate and ahandful of classified documents confirming Levinson’s contract with the CIA are leaked to the AP in Dec 2013.
Still, the Iranians don’t budge. This was surprising because at this point they no longer have any reason to lie. The Americans weren’t lying anymore. Time to start negotiations. But nope. The news was greeted with radio silence.
Years go by and no more pictures or videos ever arrive. And then comes the Iranian Nuclear Deal of 2016.
Unbeknownst to most, the Obama team had negotiated the release of four Americans being held in Iranin exchange for the US dropping charges against seven Iranian nationals for sanctions violations.Bob Levinson was not one of those Americans.
The American Jewish community was furious. They already saw the Iranian deal as a stab in the back to Israel. But when word broke about the prisoner exchange and Bob Levinson wasn’t on the list, many took it as a deliberate betrayal of American Jews too.
Flash forward some more, Trump takes office, cancels the Nuclear Deal; Christine Levinson sues Iran in US Courts and is awarded a $1.2 billion judgement in January 2020, and in March 2020 the US government declares Bob Levinson legally dead. Case closed, right?
Wrong.
At some point in Summer2020 a former Air Force intelligence officer named Bob Kent claims to have receivednews from his “network in Iraq” alleging thatBob Levinson was still alive. Kent even claims he received pictures to prove it.
So Kent contacts David McGee who then tells Kent about the last privately funded search and rescue for Levinson andthat’s when Kent hatches the plan to rope Don Gaetz into paying for this one.
Now I know what you’re all wondering:how did these men know about the Matt Gaetz investigation?
To my knowledge that has never been revealed. If I had to guess, I’d say someone in the DOJ or FBI leaked that info to McGee who then told Kent about it when he was contacted. But that’s still only have the answer.
(This is the part of the story where I start spiraling. I start wondering just how long this plan had been in the works. Nothing adds up.But for now, I’ll spare you my suspicions and stick to what I know.)
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