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US Secretary of State John Kerry has sidestepped questions about a missing agent of the Central Intelligence Agency who was spying in Iran.
"I don't have any comment whatsoever on the condition with respect to employment or any other issue," Kerry said during a press conference on Friday.
The top US diplomat also refrained from acknowledging that the agent was spying for the United States in Iran.

However, Kerry emphasized he would continue his efforts to secure the CIA operative's release and return to the country.
"We have raised the issue of his whereabouts on a continuing basis," he said.
According to US media outlets, the CIA paid Levinson's family two and a half million dollars to avoid a revealing lawsuit.
Robert Levinson, a former DEA and FBI employee who gathered intelligence in Latin America for the Central Intelligence Agency after leaving the bureau, was long believed to have flown to an Iranian resort in 2007.

The retired FBI agent who seemed to vanish in Iran seven years ago was in fact 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 on Friday.

Source: Agencies