Roberto Conforti
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Gen. Roberto Conforti, the retired head of the art theft squad, testified that he wrote a letter in 2000 to hundreds of museums around the world, seeking their aid in tracking down works of art that could have been looted in Italy and illegally exported. A copy of General Conforti's letter was found among the papers confiscated from Mr. Hecht's home in Paris, speculating on how it might have made its way there. General Conforti, who retired in 2002, said that cooperation from museums had been slow in coming. Gen. Roberto Conforti, the retired head of the art theft squad, testified that he wrote a letter in 2000 to hundreds of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and museums in Boston and Cleveland and at Princeton University, seeking their aid in tracking down works of art that could have been looted in Italy and illegally exported. A copy of General Conforti's letter was found among the papers confiscated from Mr. Hecht's home in Paris, other investigators said Wednesday, speculating on how it might have made its way there. General Conforti, who retired in 2002, said that cooperation from museums had been slow in coming.