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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.
“Fort Worth”5 pages
Honorable Harrison H. Schmitt United States Senate 1251 DSOB Washington, D.C. 25010 Dear Senator Schnitt: As I told you over the telephone yesterday, I have asked Philip Keymann, head of the Criminal Division, to look into our jurisdiction over the cattle mutilation problem with which you are concerned. We will be in touch with you at an early date. I must say that the materials sent me indicate the existence of one of the strangest phenomenons in my memory. Warn regards. Sincerely, Griffin B. Bell GB3:kmm bcc: w/materials to Terry Adamson Ray Calamaro Phil Heymann Please have someone look into this matter at an early date. Sen. Schmitt is our friend and there have been about 60 mutilations in New Mexico in recent months.
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.