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MM 77-9400 WPG:crmh 1. The followj j i j was conducted by a Special Agent (SA) on March 22, 1979 at Naples, Florida: Judge PHILIP W. TONE, United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, was contacted at La Playa Hotel, Vanderbilt Beach, where he was vacationing. TONE advised he had known ABNER J. MIKVA for a number of years and that MIKVA had appeared several times before him when he was a district judge. He has known MIKVA both as an attorney and as his congressional representative from the 10th Congressional District of Illinois. He had no doubts or reservations about MIKVA's character, loyality to the United States or associates. He stated MIKVA was of excellent reputation and described him as an intelligent, high caliber person who would be fair and unprejudiced in his dealings as a judge. TONE advised he considered MIKVA a most capable person who he would recommend highly.