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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 2
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To : DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : SAC, ANCHORAGE (62-0) ATTN: NATIONAL STOLEN PROPERTY. Fi
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suayEcr PECTORAL CROSS PROPERTY OF j Be. Baia —
, IS EMINENCE FRANCIS CARDINAL - 7 pe
SPELLMAN —— oe
eaaquarters,
United States Army Alaska, informed me that His Eminence
FPRANCTS CARDINAT, SPELIMAN visited Alaska during the latter
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part of December, “1957, following which he departed en route
Tokyo arriving there on December 22, 1957. While in Alaska
the Cardinal, as a result of weather conditions, was
obliged to limit his visit to Anchorage, Fairbanks, and -
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5s0me po.nes or interest to nit in boon of these cities,
local chaplains by telegram that he had lost his Pectoral
Cross somewhere on his journey. A search of winter clothing
used by him as well as quarters occupied failed to reflect
presence of the cross and it is presumed that it may
have been lost somehwere in Alaska. _ . .
| Following his arrival in Tokyo he notified
I have informed the Agents of this office con-
cerning the crogs and through them the Police Department
|e Anchorage and Fairba after I had .
specifically inquired of as to whether ssi? |
he thought the garfinal would interpose any objection to
j the police being notified of the loss. He assured me
\ that “there we be : mo objection but that such action would
be welcome. A
a me * cross as best described by be
4 = is appr Oximately BeVET inchés by three inches and a5 made
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\\ 5) of sterling silver or yellow gold. It was described as
emerald or jade, in the center of it, and that the jewel
a ox Ne ty Particularly unusual in that it contained a green jewel,
Ki ‘\\was approximately one inch An diameter, rectangular in
¢ © shape with round edges. , Hie SS was supported on a goid
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