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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 04

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 27 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 9 …the mutilations occur is carefully analysed weeks in advance. They have been marked years in advance…
  • p. 15 …rituals resulting in these mutilations and the wildest theory advanced is that they have some connection…
  • p. 25 …RICHARD SIGISMUND, Social Scientist, Boulder, Colorado, presented an argument which advanced the theory that the cattle…

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involved in this matter, it is obvious that there would be a large amount of correspondence necessary and Albuquerque would suggest a code name be established of BOVMUT.

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