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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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EX111l # 63-0-35132 Honorable Carl T. Curtis United States Senate Washington, D. C. 20510 Dear Senator Curtis: This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of September 4th, with enclosure, concerning the recent main ing and killing of cattle in several Nebraska communities. MAILED $ SEP11 1974 2019-09-14 On August 23rd I answered your letter of August 21st and indicated I was having a representative of our Omaha Office contact Mr. George Hitchcock of Stuart, Nebraska, to determine whether the facts constituted a possible violation of law within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI. I have just received a communication from our Omaha Office which sets forth the results of interviews with Mr. Mitchbock and Charles Fox, Sheriff of Holt County, Nebraska. Based on the information furnished by these individuals, it appears that no Federal law within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI has been violated, inasmuch as there is no indication of interstate transportation of the trained or killed animals. I am informed that this matter is currently under investigation by the Nebraska State Patrol and law enforcement officers in the counties involved. Sincerely yours, Adopt. Div. ___ Boy. AD Adm. ___ Boy. AD Inv. ___ Aust. Div. t C. M. Kelley Clarence M. Kelley Director
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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.