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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
To: SAC, Albuquerque From: Director, FBI THE MUTILATIONS OF 15 ANIMALS; CIR OO: Albuquerque 7 - ## ReAQairtel, 2/16/79. Enclosed for the Albuquerque Division is one copy of a memorandum from the Department of Justice (DOJ) dated March 2, 1979, and attachments. In accordance with enclosed memorandum, the Albuquerque Division is instructed to conduct an appropriate investigation into the 15 mutilations of animals which were performed on Indian reservations within the state of New Mexico. After the Albuquerque Division conducts a preliminary investigation into these mutilations and it is believed that placing information into a computer bank will be of investigative assistance, at that time the request for same should be submitted with full justification. FBIHQ, upon receipt of additional information from DOJ, will forward same. FBIHQ should be kept apprised on a timely basis the results of investigative efforts. Enclosures - 3 198-1048-4 Assoc. Dir. ___ Dep. AD Adn. ___ Dep. AD Inv. ___ Asst. Dir. : Adm. Serva. ___ Crim. Inv. ___ Ident. ___ Intell. ___ Laboratory MAILED 13 MAR 7 1979 FBI 22 MAR 12 1979 Legal Coon. Plan. & Insp. Rec. Mgat. Tech. Servs. Training Public Affairs. Off. Telephone Rm. Director's Rec. JLS:par (4)
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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.