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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 02
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 25 pages · text by GLM-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.
“cattle mutilation”20 pages
- p. 1 # The Mutilation Mystery
DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS. MORE THAN 1500 CATTLE IN 22 STATES HAVE…
- p. 2 …some reknown, who had been investigating the cattle mutilations since they first occurred in his home…
- p. 3 …and that this biker talked about earlier cattle mutilations. The biker also described his experiences in…
- p. 4 …Tinsley, an employee of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, who was investigating the mutilations…
- p. 5 …hovered at night and anusless cattle lay stiff and mutilated in the dawn.
Despite the organized…
- p. 6 …Louis Girodo, about the theory that the mutilations were part of a bacteriological warfare research project…
- p. 7 THE MUTILATION MYSTERY As far as I have been able to determine, it was investigators in…
- p. 8 The Colorado Bureau of Investigation officially began its investigation of the mutilations in the summer of…
- p. 9 …t the mutilators just rent a ranch somewhere and buy a herd of cattle and start…
- p. 10 …the CIA wants a couple of their cattle—national security, you know—and to please leave…
- p. 11 THE MUTILATION MYSTERY In Idaho, a man was driving his jeep at about 3:30 A…
- p. 12 …One researcher, in fact, does claim that the mutilators have got their disease death time down…
- p. 13 …and boyotes refuse to eat the mutilated horses and cattle.
Ben, Schmidt, WM received a Ph…
- p. 15 …CATTLE MUTILATION
FILE: 198-1048
SECTION / OF /
THIS SECTION IS COMPRISED OF 96 PAGES WHICH WERE…
- p. 18 …to look into our jurisdiction over the cattle mutilation problem with which you are concerned. We…
- p. 19 …Cockburn implies the investigation may have been terminated because cattle mutilation per se is not a…
- p. 22 …Like myself, he had taken only a passing interest in cattle mutilations. The arrival in June…
- p. 23 …A survey of newsclips and other literature on cattle mutilation seems to indicate that the whole…
- p. 24 …What are we left with? In the hundreds of cases of cattle mutilations, no one has…
- p. 25 …May, more than 100 cattle have been found dead and gruesomely mutilated in Nebraska, Kansas and…
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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.
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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. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.