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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.
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SUBJECT CORRESPONDENCE - SENATOR SCHMITT (LIVESTOCK MUTILATIONS) FROM MARTIN E. VIGIL, DIRECTOR CAPTAIN CHARLIE P. ANAYA New Mexico State Police Espanola, New Mexico ATTENTION OF MAJOR M. S.: CHAVEZ Dear Captain: We are in receipt of correspondence from the Honorable Harrison Schmitt, State Senator, and Mr. Manuel S. Gomez, Dulce, New Mexico regarding livestock mutilations in Rio Arriba County for the past two years. Kindly instruct Officer Gabe Valdez to submit copies of all his reports concerning this matter to this office, in order that we may forward them to Senator Schmitt's office. Very truly yours, MARTIN E. VIGIL, DIRECTOR W. J. PULLOCK, CHIEF Uniformed Bureau State Police Division Criminal Justice Department cc: File The Honorable Harrison Schmitt, State Senator MEV/WJB/c1 ATTACHMENTS:
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.