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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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To: SAC, Minneapolis (62-0-14743) REC.23 From: Director, FBI 63-0-35659 FY.117 MUTILATIONS OF ANIMALS MINNESOTA, NORTH & SOUTH DAKOTA RESEARCH MATTER ## Reference Minneapolis airtel dated January 21, 1975. The circumstances set forth in referenced airtel were discussed with Dr. Don Wilson, Chief, Manmalogy Section, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D. C. Dr. Wilson said that the circumstances set forth in referenced airtel are consistent with natural phenomena. According to Dr. Wilson, when small mammals such as foxes and opposums feed on the carcasses of large mammals such as cattle that have not decayed they first feed on soft tissues such as the nose, lips, udders and genital areas. He said that it has been frequently observed that the genital area is most often the first soft tissue to be attacked. Dr. Wilson had no information concerning the specific appearance of tissue bitten by foxes. class 7132 WSC:fdH(5) 51FEB101075 MAIL ROOM TELETYPE UNIT
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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.