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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 02

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 25 pages · text by OCR

This FBI file release, date unknown, reproduces press coverage of cattle mutilations: a magazine report by Ed Sanders and a Newsweek article dated September 30, 1974. The material describes about 1,500 mutilated cattle across 22 states, helicopter sightings, and theories ranging from predators to satanic cults to UFOs. It details a 1975 federal investigation into informants A. Kenneth Bankston and Dan Dugan, whose claims about a satanic cult the investigators came to doubt. It records that the inquiry was then dropped without resolution.

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  • p. 1 …The ranchers were used to the nocturnal depredations of predators, but they had never seen anything…
  • p. 5 …tongue? It was a tion I was never able to answer. B I could arrange to…
  • p. 11 …hooded hikers—despite an intensive search—were never found. Then, in northern Idaho on October 9th…
  • p. 12 …I had never seen anything like it. Even when a cow is slaughtered at a packing…
  • p. 23 …Behind them the mutilators always leave county sheriffs and veterinarians saying they have never seen anything…
  • p. 25 …what he is looking for. "I've never seen anything 'Warpath': Tribesman soliciting tolls like this…
00: Albuquerque

Re Bureau airtel to Albuquerque, 3/6/79.

Enclosed for the Albuquerque Division is a package containing numerous documents from the Department of Justice concerning captioned matter. It is forwarded for the information of the Albuquerque Division.

Enclosure

ST-140

REC-5Q.

52:APR 201979

53APR161979

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.