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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.
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An article appeared in the "Albuquerque Journal" on Wednesday, 4/25/79, captioned "Santa Fe DA to Coordinate Cattle Mutilation Probe". The article states the Santa Fe District Attorney's Office was awarded $44,170 in grant money to coordinate investigations of cattle mutilations. This award was made on Tuesday, 4/24/79. According to the article, the grant application received the backing of U.S. Attorney R.E. THOMPSON and the FBI. State Police, and the granting of the LEAA funds. The Albuquerque FBI does not recommend that the FBI be the coordinating unit unless the FBI is given full jurisdiction to look into all mutilations by either Congress or Executive Order. The Albuquerque Office of the FBI recommends that the investigative unit to be set up with the grant money be designated as the coordinator for cattle mutilation investigations. The Albuquerque Office would maintain a liaison with the investigative unit and cooperate with it in exchanging data and restrict its investigations to those cattle mutilations which might occur on Indian lands in the future.
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 27 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.