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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.
“cattle mutilation”11 pages
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REPLY TO ATTN OF: SAC ALBUQUERQUE (198-541) C MUTILATION OF ANIMALS ON INDIAN LANDS IN NEW MEXICO CIR (C) OO: ALBUQUERQUE DIRECTOR, FBI (198-1048) Re Albuquerque letter to the Director, 12/10/79. Enclosed for the Bureau are five copies of an LHM captioned as above. One copy of this LHM is being designated for KENNETH M. ROMMEL, District Attorney's Office, Espanola, New Mexico. ROMMEL is the Director of a Special Investigative Unit set up under an LEAA grant for the purpose of investigating animal mutilations. No investigation is currently being conducted by the Albuquerque FBI Office regarding mutilations, and this case is in a closed status. It is again pointed out there have been no reports of mutilations on Indian lands in New Mexico since the Albuquerque Office was instructed to investigate this matter. ENCLOSURE SWJ:rag (3) 1CC . GET & LHM retained . com 5056 a. h: Roger Adams, D.25 37/20 421/80 2ccLHM scit v1=0-G 16 JAN 18 1980 CAPITULO I JSof/n 60 JAN 28 1980 Buy U.S., Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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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. 33 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.