FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 02

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THE MUTILATION MYSTERY Can it be that the United State nuclear-security system is breaking down and that weirdos are free to perform drooling flamencoances qtop our missile-silo hatches?

southwestern Nebraska. They just flat disappeared off the radar."

"Did they land?" I asked.

"Well," Jackson replied, "we had a plane in the air that was on the site and saw the lights below; it was a clear night, and when the lights went out, everybody thought that they'd landed. But when the plane came down to 100 to 150 feet, the pilot couldn't see anything."

"The only thing that was there was a missile silo," Jackson said.

Ahal I thought—the ultimate cover! Use a revamped missile site as a landing supply zone for mute copiers! There had been another incident on August 21, 1975, when an unidentified helicopter had hovered above a Strategic Air Command missile site south of Bushnell, Nebraska, then had disappeared into Colorado.

The only problem with missile installations as landing zones is their size. According to Jackson, the size—most of which are unmanned—are enclosed with barbed-wire fence and are approximately

There is a small shack on each site and then there's the sealed missile into itself, which is about 12 feet in diameter with about a four and a half showing above the ground. It would be difficult to hide three helicopters in such a small space, unless there was some sort of camouflaged bunker nearby. I would also guess that the electronic security is fairly intense near a nuke site, but—can it be that the United States' nuclear security system is breaking down and that weirdos are free to perform drooling flamenco dances atop our missile-silo hatches?

In recent months, there has been a minor media hyp over alleged Soviet violations of the United Nations germ-warfare ban. Jack Anderson wrote a column in which he accused the Soviets of continuing germ-warfare research, while stating that the U.S. is keeping its promise to destroy biological weapons. "Both nations," Anderson said, "have developed new virus and Rickettsia strains against which the world has no immunity. This has been achieved by using chemicals, radiation, ultraviolet light and other agents to produce snakes or mutants" (amphasis added).

Traces of radiation were, in fact, found at several mutilation sites, one of them, already mentioned, in Cochran County, Texas. And Bill Jackson says that radiation was found at a mutilation site near Sterling Colorado: "Two of the mutilations we had in 1975 were north of

Sterling In a remote area called Chinney Canyon. There's absolutely nothing up there. The animals were mutilated on a big ranch, and just out of curiosity, the sheriff took a Geiger counter along and got a reading on both animals around the head and anus—but not on the red of their bulbs. There have been reports of radioactivity at a mutilation site in Wyoming also.

The thought that radioactive-mutant bacteria, or perhaps a bacteria radioactive-material mickey, are being slipped to animals causes the mind to go "y-yi-yi!"

D. C. Erizhim, a private investigator in Colorado Springs who began looking into the mutilations in May 1975, takes the bacteriological-research theory very seriously. For a number of years, Erianne was an employee of one of the clandestine intelligence services; he was stationed in Europe as he says; specialist in Russian affairs; later, in the early Sixties, he was based for a short time. In Washington, D.C., with the office of the Secretary of Defense, Erianne has assured me that he has no current connection with the Agency; in fact, he seems to have joined the ever-growing center of patriotic-but-critical former employers of Government intelligence agencies.

Some of Erianne's Government experiences lead him to suspect that the recent mutilations are really the work of regime researchers. In 1961, Erianne claims, he learned that secret research was being conducted by the U.S. "in regard to bacteria." He says: "There was a meeting of the Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1961; One of the people there was [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara. At the time, I worked for the Secretary's office, so it's pretty well substantiated that they did have a meeting in regard to some type of bacteria."

"Well, in regard to Oriental warfare, Erianne replied.

I had long heard it rumored that there had been a Government germ-warfare program that had been targeted against Orientals. It was a bit disgusting to contemplate, I must say, but let us not forget that the United States has not hesitated to use defoliants, impalm and the Albomb against these same people. Is it unreasonable to think the United States is capable of developing a germ, or toxin, or nerve agent, that picked on the enzymes of a particular race?

According to the bacteriological warfare theory, the group behind the multi-

lations consists of scientists who were fired in 1970 when the Nixon ban on bacteriological-warfare research went into effect; somehow, the story goes, these apostles of germ live subsequently obtained clandestine funding from the Government. There has also been speculation that a private corporation stepped in to fund the research, perhaps in anticipation of the day when the Government ban would be dropped.

One of the grim possibilities is that while once supposedly targeted against Orientals, the research may now be aimed against a different human target. One hears talk among mitigation investigators that the mucous membranes of cow's eye possess properties similar to the mucous membranes of a particular race. and that the cow, therefore, is a perfect subject on which to test the effects of a bacteriological agent.

It all sounded for me to be a hit off the padded walls of oo-be-oo. In talking with reporter Bill Hendrix of KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City, however, I learned that during the Sixties, the Dugway Proving Ground did work on an anti-Oriental germ or toxin; the stuff had been sent to Dugway—presumably from Fort Detrick or the Edgewood Arsenal (the Maryland bethers of such research)—where scientists had tested on animals.

An official at Dugway had confirmed to Hendrix that an elite group at the bacteriological research facilities in the East had been working on such a germ weapon. They, usually worked under laboratory conditions, but on two occasions, the scientists went to Texas and possibly to Minnesota, where they illegally injected range animals.

Was the anti-Oriental germ or toxin a Clostridia? Very possibly. While Clostridia is very common, it has, according to scientists, the potential for sophisticated development against specific targets.

One question comes immediately : mind: Why, instead of causing terror, don't the mutilators just rent a ranch somewhere and buy a herd of cattle and start chopping? One theory, as supplied by a Colorado newspaper editor named Dane Edwards, is that the researchers used to experiment at different altitudes, climates and seasons of the year, apparently to see if this particular strain will work in the various parts of the world where the target race dwells. I asked investigator Girodo why he thought the muties might want to cause terror, and he replied: Well, there are many possibilities; one is that the researchers are