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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file on cattle mutilation collects correspondence and memos from 1974 to 1976. Senators Carl T. Curtis and Floyd K. Haskell asked the FBI to investigate livestock mutilations in Nebraska, Colorado and other states. Director Clarence M. Kelley replied that no Federal law within FBI jurisdiction had been violated, since there was no interstate transportation. The file also includes news clippings on UFO and helicopter reports, and a Fish and Wildlife Service view that the injuries are consistent with scavengers.
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# Cattle Deaths and the FBI If the FBI will not enter the investigation of mysterious livestock deaths in Colorado and some adjacent states then Sen. Floyd Haskell, P-Colo., should take the matter to Congress for resolution. The incidents are too widespread—and potentially too dangerous to public order—to ignore. Narrow interpretations of what the FBIs role is vis-a-vis state authority are not adequate to the need. There is already federal involvement. Consider this: Because of the gun-happy frame of mind developing in eastern Colorado (where most of the Incidents have been occurring), the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has had to cancel a helicopter inventory of its lands in six counties. BLM officials are simply afraid their helicopters might be shot down by ranchers and others frightened by cattle deaths. If that isn't a reason for federal involvement, we don't know what is. And the question of which federal agency investigates isn't as important as the need to bring a focus on the incidents that is broader than the jurisdiction of one state. Killings and mutilations of livestock have been occurring in Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and elsewhere-not just in Colorado. If there is a pattern to the incidents it would seem that the broadest possible study of them is indicated. In any case, Senator Haskell should keep the pressure on the FBI. It has manpower and a wide range of investigatory tools. And if the FBI resists successfully, the senator should go to Congress to get the sort of attention these alarming incidents deserve. [indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.] 24 The Denver Post Denver, Colorado Date: 9/3/75 Edition: Home Edition Editor: Charles R. Buxton Title: "Cattle Deaths And The FBI" Classification: Submitting Office: Denver Being Investigated
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.