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Let \(\mathcal H\) be a nonzero complex Hilbert space. A contraction \(T\in{\mathcal B}({\mathcal H})\) has property PF if either \(T^\ast\) is not intertwined to any isometry on any nonzero complex Hilbert space \(\mathcal K\), or if \(X\neq 0\) intertwines \(T^\ast\) to an isometry \(J\), then the same \(X\) also intertwines \(T\) to a coisometry \(J^\ast\). The authors give a new proof based entirely on direct sum decompositions for contractions of the following Theorem: The completely non-unitary direct summand of a contraction \(T\) is of class \(C_{. 0}\) if and only if \(T\) has property \text{ PF}. This result appeared in \textit{B. P. Duggal} [Integral Equations Oper. Theory 27, 314-323 (1997; Zbl 0908.47019)]. In the present paper, there are also proved some corollaries to this theorem concerning contractions with the property PF.