The invisible man rescuing stolen art
There are about 100 of us packed into a restaurant in Upper Holmesburg, Philadelphia - art experts and curators, museum security chiefs, and a phalanx of FBI agents with 9mm Glocks concealed under their G-man suits.
We have gathered to say farewell to a man few people have heard of and even fewer could recognise or describe.
That is the way Special Agent Robert "Bob" Wittman prefers it.
For nearly two decades, usually masquerading as a crooked art dealer with links to the Mafia or the Colombian drug cartels, he has run undercover sting operations, luring criminals into selling him stolen works of art.
Protecting his identity means the difference between life and death.
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We have gathered to say farewell to a man few people have heard of and even fewer could recognise or describe.
That is the way Special Agent Robert "Bob" Wittman prefers it.
For nearly two decades, usually masquerading as a crooked art dealer with links to the Mafia or the Colombian drug cartels, he has run undercover sting operations, luring criminals into selling him stolen works of art.
Protecting his identity means the difference between life and death.