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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 05

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This part of the FBI Animal Mutilation file covers 1979 to 1980 and includes FBI memoranda, letters to Senator Harrison Schmitt and Senate staff, and press clippings. At the Justice Department's request, the Albuquerque office investigated fifteen animal mutilations on Indian lands in New Mexico, but it did not identify anyone responsible. Kenneth Rommel, a former agent who directed the District Attorney's project, sent flakes from a pickup truck in Taos to the FBI Laboratory, which identified them as white exterior house paint.

  • p. 1 …the investigative unit currently being established re cattle mutilations within the DA's Office, Santa Fe…
  • p. 3 …Since March, 1979, there have been no new cattle mutilations in Indian country, and our investigation…
  • p. 4 …investigation of the bizarre mutilation of thousands of grazing horses and cattle over an 18-state…
  • p. 6 …There have been no new cattle mutilations reported to us in Indian country, and our investigation…
  • p. 7 …Ryan was advised that the FBI had sufficient funds to handle our investigation concerning cattle mutilations…
  • p. 9 …Burkett Van Kirk mutilations, primarily cattle, which was attended by law enforcement agencies from several states…
  • p. 13 …Ken Rommel, hired through a $50,000 federal grant to investigate cattle mutilations in Rio Arriba…
  • p. 15 ## Mutilations ## Probe Disappointing Examination of the first quarterly report submitted in our famous $50,000 cattle…
  • p. 16 …FBI) to maintain its investigation of the cattle mutilations that have occurred in northern New Mexico…
  • p. 19 …for a special investigative unit to investigate cattle mutilations. Subsequently, it was announced that the LEAA…
  • p. 22 …As previously stated, there are those that have attempted to make a connection between cattle mutilations…

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In Reply, Please Refer to File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Albuquerque, New Mexico August 1, 1979

ANIMAL MUTILATIONS

On July 25, 1979, WAYNE CIDDIO, Administrative Assistant to Senator Harrison Schmitt, Santa Fe Office, furnished copies of newspaper articles from an Espanola, New Mexico, newspaper, the "Rio Grande Sun", regarding mutilations.

Mr. CIDDIO also furnished a copy of a news release from the office of Senator SCHMITT which was dated July 17, 1979. The news articles and release follow:

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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