FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 02

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

Another question is: Since We ranchers are among the most patriotic of Americans, why not just hand them checks and tell them that the CIA wants a couple of their cattle—national security, you know—and to please leave the gate unlocked and to keep quiet about it?

Down in Nara Vista, New Mexico, for instance, Kathy Cammack operates a ranch with her husband in an area that has been hard-hit with mutes and copiers and even UFOs. Mrs. Cammack has investigated the mutes for a local newspaper. In spite of the weirdness and terror, she wrote, "If this is Government military maneuvers, then it is time people are informed. To say that there are experiments or research in process that are classified would set many minds at ease. And, at the same time, Americans could be pleased, proud and appreciative of the endeavor. We, the people, are called on to provide tax money and to provide young men to fight in wars. Surely we can be trusted to be kept informed about things that affect us."

Apparently not. First of all, the activities of a rogue group of chopopaths who defy a Presidential order could well become a hot election-year campaign issue in a country where millions distrust the Government after years of Watergate, CIA revelations, corruption, et multa alia.

Secondly, there is a good chance that some of these researchers, whatever their credentials, are insane. They may have some of the highest security clearances obtainable and impeccable reputations in their fields, but they're still pickies. Sometimes I think these bovine surgeons are trying for art. You look at photos of these smooth and perfect chop-up patterns—neat circles, occasionally sporting a saw-toothed edge, etc.—and you wonder if they aren't striving to produce some sort of military-industrial-surrealist sculpture movement. Consider, for instance, the two-week-old calf killed near Sterling, Colorado, in early March 1976. It was small enough for the mutes to carry away, the body. Only the head was left behind. They cut off the back part of the tongue and then reinserted the tip into the calf's mouth, where it was later found by the lucky person who had to poke within.

SUMMER, FALL AND WINTER It was the summer and fall of 1975 that fully revealed the enormous scope and security precautions of the mutilators. Between September and December, the acute wave broke in 13 states and there was terror in dozens of counties throughout the West. Tide wave and flash torn oopters and UFO reports. There