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The Sword AND The Stone (Part Five)

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Blog Table of Contents In a radio interview on WNPR in September of 2017" Stephen Kurkjian said that "for 28 years the FBI has labored diligently on the case." That is the very opposite of the conclusion anyone would draw, who considered Kurkjian's own book, Master Thieves , the last word on the diligence, or lack thereof,  of this investigation by the FBI, most especially in the book's fourth chapter, called  "Anne Hawley's Burden"  Kurkjian offers his own first-person account, i n a later chapter,   of bringing what he considered credible information about the Heist and the possible location of the stolen paintings to investigators in 2014, not as a journalist but as a citizen, describing an utter absence of any follow-up up with him, or replies to his own inquiries after that met even a minimum standard of common courtesy:   " I had met both men [Geoff Kelly and Anthony Amore] numerous times in the past, but on  each of those oc