Episode 197: Nancy Savage – Robert Levinson, Iranian Hostage RIP

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Nancy Savage reviews the life and career of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson and the 13-year fight to bring “Bob” home. He had not been publicly seen or heard from since March 9, 2007, when he was kidnapped while visiting Kish Island in Iran. In March 2020, the Levinson family announced that they had received information from U.S. officials that has led both to conclude that their wonderful husband and father died while in Iranian custody.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 197 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the
0:16.5	public who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.6	Today we get to speak to retired agent Nancy Savage who served in the FBI for 34 years, 28 as a special agent.
0:37.0	Prior to graduating from the FBI Academy, she was employed in the personnel division at FBI headquarters.
0:45.3	During her agent career, Nancy worked as a street agent in the Louisville, Miami, and
0:51.8	Portland divisions and as a supervisor in the Miami in Portland divisions,
0:58.0	as well as a unit chief in the criminal investigative division at FBI headquarters.
1:04.1	In this episode, Nancy reviews the life and career
1:08.3	of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson and the 13 year fight to bring Bob home.
1:18.2	Bob Levinson had not been seen publicly or heard from since March 9th of 2007 when he was kidnapped while
1:28.5	visiting Kish Island in Iran. Nancy was involved with the FBI's employee assistance program, EAP, for most of her career.
1:40.0	She retired from the FBI as the supervisory senior resident agent in Eugene, Oregon.
1:47.0	During her assignment in Oregon, she served from 1999 to 2001 as the Western Regional Representative of the
1:57.5	FBI Agents Association and as the National President from 2001 to 2003. Currently, Nancy is the Executive Director of
2:09.1	the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, a fraternal, educational, and community-minded
2:16.4	organization with the mission to preserve shared FBI values, to support the welfare of members through service, benefits, and career
2:27.0	networking, to offer programs of fellowship, education, service, and History, and to promote the FBI and
2:36.1	law enforcement national security communities. The campaign to
2:40.8	bring Bob home and find out the truth about the disappearance of Robert Levinson,
2:47.0	what about Bob, has been the society's focus for the past 13 years.
2:53.0	Recently, the Levinson family announced that they had received information from U.S. officials that has led them to conclude that their wonderful husband and father died while in
3:06.3	Iranian custody.
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