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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 04

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 27 pages · text by 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. 21 …Albuquerque FBI Office. Reairtel authorized the Albuquerque FBI to investigate the mutilations of 15 animals which…
  • p. 24 …PUTMAN, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Albuquerque Office of the FBI, explained to the conference that…
  • p. 27 ## CATTLE MUTILATIONS During the afternoon of April 20, 1979, law enforcement officers met with U.S…
SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT 029427

5. ORIGINAL REPORT 6. SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT 7. PAGE OF 8. NARRATIVE up by infra red rays but not visible to the naked eye. These tests will be

that I will .

on all of Mr. Gonea's cattle in the near future. Assisting in this investigation is

J. Byrd, New Mexico Cattle Sanitary Board and Mr. Edward Burgess, Albuquerque, N. M

Gabriel L. Valdez

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Respectfully submitted,

New Mexico State Police

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