(CNN) -- The family of long-missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson has renewed its request for a meeting with the bureau's new director following reports Levinson had been working for the CIA when he vanished, the family's lawyer said Monday. Levinson disappeared on a trip to Iran in 2007, and U.S. officials say they have no idea where he is now. The Associated Press and The Washington Post reported last week that he had been working as a contractor for the CIA, but the White House said Levinson "was not a U.S. government employee" when he disappeared. Family attorney David McGee said Levinson's relatives were supposed to meet with FBI Director James Comey about the case long before it became publicly known that Levinson was working for the CIA. The FBI has delayed previously scheduled meetings since Comey took over as director in September, McGee says.
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Former FBI agent Robert Levinson has been missing since 2007
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He had been a contract employee for the CIA, reports disclosed last week
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His family wants a meeting with FBI Director James Comey after those reports
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Family lawyer says Levinson was working for the CIA when he disappeared
A U.S. law enforcement official said the @placeholder is working to set up that meeting with Comey, who has been traveling extensively, and the bureau hopes to arrange that meeting soon.