![]() ![]() ![]() Through careful investigation, tightly-planned undercover operations, and a little bit of right-place-right-time luck, Wittman and his FBI Art Crime Team returned valuable art objects and antiquities to their proper place. ![]() Wittman’s 2010 memoir, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures (Crown), which he coauthored with investigative reporter John Shiffman, relives some of the most exciting moments from his long career. Trained in art, antiques, jewelry and gem identification, he was instrumental in creating the FBI’s Art Crime Team after the looting of Bagdad Museum in 2003. Wittman, a high school piano prodigy whose father published an agricultural newspaper and later was an antiques dealer, spent 20 years with the FBI, retiring in 2008. Parking is available in the SunTrust Parking Garage in Winter Park, which is accessed via Lyman or Comstock Avenues off of Park Avenue. A reception, also open to the public, will follow the lecture. Produced in association with Rollins College, the museum’s McKean Public Lecture is being held at 7:30 p.m. It affects us in a deeply emotional way.” “Every country has a different cultural heritage and saving these things brings us closer together as human beings,” Wittman says. ![]() Wittman, the author of a best-selling memoir about his years as the FBI’s senior art crimes investigator, will be in Central Florida May 10 to share the thrills and chills of his undercover sleuthing on multiple continents at the Morse Museum’s Hugh F. ![]()
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