The paper had reported that O'Neill's briefcase, containing sensitive documents, was stolen while he was attending an F.B.I. conference in Florida.
The torc was reported to Helen Fowler at a finds meeting at Peterborough Museum, who said she was "gobsmacked" when it came out of the finder's briefcase.
The reports in his briefcase had no bearing on war, peace, the dope traffic, the hydrogen bomb, or any of the other international skulduggeries that he associated with pursuers, men in trench coats, and wet sidewalks.
Reporting to Shane Weston, the commander-in-chief of WIN's London Headquarters, Joe is also equipped with a special briefcase, which externally appears to be nothing more than a school case but which secretly contains an adapted handgun and transceiver.
After Hawkins's disappearance was publicized, witnesses came forward to report seeing a man that night in the alley behind a nearby dormitory, on crutches with a leg cast, struggling to carry a briefcase.
"Every evening I left the office with a big briefcase full of reports which I had written myself, full of files taken out of the actual documents, out of the actual archives.
Around $30,000 worth of gold can fit in a pocket and roughly $700,000 can be carried in a briefcase, according to a 2012 report from The Enough Project.
The investigators then assembled the bombs in restrooms and freely entered numerous government offices while carrying the devices in briefcases, the report said.
Mr. Senor played down a report from ABC News that documents found in Mr. Hussein's briefcase showed that Iraqi insurgents were working under cover with the United States-led forces here or with Iraqi security organizations.
Surveillance cameras captured him removing a map from a Beinecke book, and a Yale detective found valuable maps that appear to be from Yale's collection in Mr. Smiley's briefcase and jacket, according to an incident report.
