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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
1. AGENCY ORI U7 New Mexico State Police 5. ORIGINAL REPORT 6. SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT 7. PAGE 2 OF 3 8. NARRATIVE Bacteriology: A specimen obtained from a heart chamber was cultured and shown to contain a rod-shaped organism identified as Clos species. Definitive classification was not made. The liver was checked against a healthy food market liver which showed a difference in the bull's liver. The bull's liver contained no copper, and 4 times the amount of phosphorus, zinc, and potassium. No explanation for this condition is available at the present time. A group of microbiologists are comparing these abnormalities. Of the private labs are being withheld but if enough evidence is found to prosecute names of these laboratories will be released. Also the blood which came off of the nose when it was presumably dropped was light pink in color. This blood did not occur several days. The hide on the animal was brittle and felt to touch like enic paper. Flesh underneath the hide was pinkish in color. A probable explanation for pinkish blood is a control type of radiation used to kill the animal, according to tissue experts. The red corpullders are destroyed leaving the pale pinkish color. All toxicology findings on blood are negative because of the disaimination of the radio. It is believed that this type of radiation is not harmful to humans, although approximately 7 people who visited the mitigation site complained of nausea and headache. However, this writer has had no such symptoms after checking approximately 11 until in the past 4 months. The only assurance to this mitigation site is through Mr. Gones's front yard. The vehicle was seen or heard entering the pasture. The slain bull was last seen at approximately 8:00 pm on 4-23-78 and appeared healthy at this time. However, a Mr. J. 10. CURRENCY JEWELRY CLOTHING VEHICLES OFFICE EQUIPMENT T.V.R. Stolen $ $ $ $ $ 13. REPORTING OFFICER (Signature & Number) Kathleen L. Val 555-5678245 14. APPROVING OFFICER (Signature & Number) 1. John Smith COPIES: White, Pink, Golden = AGENCY Yellow = STATE (UCR)
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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.