article_snippet: The theft of a handwritten letter by the Renaissance master, Michelangelo could only have been an inside job, the former head of the Vatican Museums has said.
article_snippet: The Vatican authorities discovered that a former Vatican employee was missing from the offices of the Fabbrica of St Peter’s Basilica 18 years ago but did not publicise The theft of a handwritten letter by the Renaissance master.
article_snippet: The Former director of the Vatican Museums has said The theft of a handwritten letter by the Renaissance master Michelangelo
article_snippet: The Former director of the Vatican Museums must have been carried out by 'an inside man'.
article_snippet: Above, a file image of one of The Former director of the Vatican Museums archives .
article_snippet: Former director of the Vatican Museums, Franco Buranelli, said: ‘These areas [of the archive] are not easy to access. '
article_snippet: These areas [of the archive] must have been an inside man working in the archives who knew how to gain possession of the document and be able to get the document out without creating havoc.
article_snippet: A former employee has come forward almost 15 years after the letters were stolen, claiming A former employee knows where the letters are .
article_snippet: A nun working in the Archivio della Fabbrica, the body set up by Pope Julius II in 1506 to maintain the basilica of St Peter’s informed the then head-Cardinal Noe of the disappearance in 1997.
highlights_snippet: Letters were kept in an area of the archives which few had access to .
  
highlights_snippet: Franco Buranelli said they must have been lifted by 'an inside man'
  The documents, said to be of 'immense value' were stolen in 1997 .
  
highlights_snippet: Former Vatican employee said this year Former Vatican employee knew where they were .
  