Dan Hofstadter

Dan Hofstadter wrote the magazine and book accounts of the Kanakaria mosaics and the Indianapolis suit Cyprus v. Goldberg. His two-part "Annals of the Antiquities Trade" appeared in the magazine on 13 and 20 July 1992², and he published the book Goldberg's Angel: An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade in 1994¹.

He did not attend the Indianapolis trial of late May and early June 1989, and says in the book that he used the notes of Mark Singer, then of The New Yorker. He thanks Robert Gottlieb for publishing two sections of the story in the magazine and Thomas R. Kline above all for legal help¹.

For the book he spent about a week in The Hague in the spring of 1991 with Michel van Rijn, whom he had not met before but who had telephoned him weekly. He also checked van Rijn with Scotland Yard, who described him as one of the top men in his line, and he stayed in touch with him through 1992. In Nicosia he interviewed Vassos Karageorghis about export-licence allegations published in the newspaper O Phileleftheros by Makarios Drousiotis. In the north he met Mehmet Rasih Savarona, whom the book describes as a former antiquities director of Kyrenia District accused in a Kyrenia court of involvement in the 1981 burglary of the castle icon store; Hofstadter reports that he was not convicted. He also met Ali Kanli, then director of the Turkish Cypriot Antiquities Department¹.