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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
FD-36 (Rq 3-24-77) CONFIDENTIAL TO: DIRECTOR, FBI FROM: SAC, ALBUQUERQUE (198-541) (P) SUBJECT: THE MUTILATIONS OF 15 ANIMALS CIR (C) OO: ALBUQUERQUE Re Bureau airtel to Albuquerque, 3/6/79. Enclosed for the Bureau are three copies of an LHM captioned "Cattle Mutilations", dated 4/25/79. A conference directed by Senator HARRISON SCHMITT, New Mexico, and U.S. Attorney R.E. THOMPSON, Albuquerque, was held on 4/20/79, at Albuquerque. This conference was opened to the public and was attended by law enforcement officials from New Mexico and other states, the news media, and interested persons. Approximately 180 persons were in attendance. During the conference, Senator SCHMITT stated that the FBI had been designated as being in charge of cattle mutilations. He explained to the conference attendees that he had conferred with Attorney General GRIFFIN BELL regarding the matter of federal involvement in cattle mutilations and that the FBI had now received the authority from the Attorney General to conduct such an investigation. Senator SCHMITT stated that in the past the Federal Government had not entered into the investigation because it felt it did not have jurisdiction. Prior to the conference it was explained to WAYNE CIDDIO, Senator SCHMITT's Administrative Aide in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that the FBI in Albuquerque had received authority from its headquarters to conduct investigations into cattle 2-Bureau (Enc 3) (RAM) 1 APR 27 1979 2-Albuquerque SWJ/sgj (4) 120-A10210400-T-3056 1911 . 11 Mn . Simpl ; ATN : Roger Adams Approved:
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