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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 01

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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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  • p. 1 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ENCLOSURE COVER SHEET SUBJECT CATTLE MUTILATION CROSS-REFERENCES 32 PAGES REVIEWED FOR…
  • p. 3 …stretching from Oklahoma to Nebraska in which cattle have been dismembered in some kind of strange…
  • p. 4 …of Clearwater, reported five head of cattle have been mutilated on his ranch. Antelope County Deputy…
  • p. 7 …Director, FBI 63-0-35659 FY.117 MUTILATIONS OF ANIMALS MINNESOTA, NORTH & SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH MATTER…
  • p. 8 # 3 3 3 # Official says mutilations an BISHARCK. N.D. (AP) An explanation may have been…
  • p. 11 …Killings and mutilations of livestock have been occurring in Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and elsewhere-not just…
  • p. 12 …the western states where cattle have been discovered mutilated. The bizarre mutilations involve loss of left…
  • p. 13 …Army helicopters had been seen in the vicinity of where some of the cattle were mutilated…
  • p. 14 …The information set forth in your letter regarding the mutilation of cattle in Colorado and several…
  • p. 17 …For several months my office has been receiving reports of cattle mutilations throughout Colorado and other…
  • p. 19 …theories that these mutilations of cattle are only a forerunner for later mutilations of human beings…

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# September 4,1974

Mr. Clarence M. Kelley Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington, D. C.

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Dear Mr. Kelley:

This will refer to my previous letter of August 21 to you regarding the series of incidents stretching from Oklahoma to Nebraska in which cattle have been dismembered in some kind of strange witchcraft cult.

Enclosed is a newspaper article which appeared in the Hastings, Nebraska, Daily Tribune concerning these weird events. Articles similar to this one have appeared in many of the Nebraska newspapers. I thought you would want to see this article in order to substantiate the claims which have been made.

I am wondering if your good offices have instigated an investigation into this situation either in Nebraska or any of the other states experiencing similar acts of mutilation to livestock. I will appreciate hearing from you.

Thanking you, I am

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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.