ID or finding colors in Illustrator image

I've placed a Pantone vector image in my InDesign file. It shows up as having CMYK colors in the image also, even though when I do a color separation and eliminate the Pantone portions, there is nothing of the image left showing.
I suspect there may be a hidden something somewhere that's in CMYK but I'm unable to find it. Is there a way to identify the colors in Illustrator? Does Illustrator show color separations or a listing of colors used like InDesign does?

in your illustrator document--for white--use the 'white' swatch from the
swatches pallete--in the attributes pallete--make sure that
(when the white outline is selected) that 'overprint stroke' is
UNCHECKED--it should then knockout of the background Pantone color and you will have a white outline.
note: I am assuming that you don't actually want to print the white--you just want a 'white' outline aroubd your colored objects.

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