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This FBI file section compiles New Mexico State Police reports by Officer Gabe Valdez on 1978 cattle mutilations at Manuel Gomez's ranch near Dulce, a Los Alamos laboratory letter calling tissue findings inconclusive, and a December 1978 letter from Senator Harrison Schmitt asking the Justice Department to reopen an investigation. It also includes a Justice Department request that the FBI investigate 15 mutilations on Indian lands, and a report on an April 1979 Albuquerque conference that recommended central coordination of mutilation data.
“New Mexico State Police”10 pages
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1873 EDITION. ORA FPR1 41 CFRI 101.11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FROM Philip B. Heymann Assistant Attorney General Criminal Division SUBJECT: Crime on Indian-Reservations; Mutilation of Animals March 2 1979 DATE: PBH:ALH:RCA:mac FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Attached is a portion of some correspondence received from Senator Harrison Schmitt indicating that 15 mutilations of animals have occurred in Indian country in New Mexico in the past three years. For several years the Criminal Division has been aware of the phenomenon of animals being mutilated in a manner that could indicate that such acts are performed by persons as part of a ritual or ceremony. The report that some of the mutilations have occurred in Indian country is our first indication that Federal law may have been violated. It is requested that the Federal Bureau of Investigation conduct an appropriate investigation of the 15 mutilations and any others that occur in Indian country as a possible crime on an Indian reservation and furnish the results to the United States Attorney and to the Criminal Division, attention: Roger C. Adams, General Crimes Section. Mr. Adams has additional information which may be of assistance to the FBI concerning previous cattle mutilations over which there was no Federal jurisdiction. Attachment ENCLOSURE REC-131 14 MAR 1979 AUTEL TO SHC AQ JES: 20 3/6/29 APR 16 1919 m m m
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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. 27 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.