Documents / FOIA release
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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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION to Mr. Moore FROM : W. D. Gow SUBJECT: THE MUTILATIONS OF 15 ANIMALS CRIME ON INDIAN RESERVATION OO: Albuquerque DATE: 6/1/79 1 - Associate Director Assoc. Dir. ___ Dep. AD Adn. ___ Dep. AD Inv. ___ 1 - Mr. Boynton 1 - Mr. Moore PURPOSE: To respond to the Director's request for information concerning an article appearing in the "National Enquirer" newspaper dated June 5, 1979, page 5, which is captioned, "FBI Joins Investigation of Animal Mutilations Linked to UFOs." (See attached.) RECOMMENDATION: None. For information. واجهة 40K DETAILS: By memorandum dated March 2, 1979, Philip B. Heymann, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, requested that the FBI conduct an appropriate investigation in New Mexico of the fifteen animal mutilations and any others that occur in Indian country as a possible Crime on an Indian Reservation and furnish the results to the U. S. Attorney and to the Criminal Division, Department of Justice (DOJ). This memorandum stated that DOJ had received correspondence from Senator Harrison Schmitt, New Mexico, indicating that fifteen mutilations of animals have occurred in New Mexico Indian country in the past three years. In this memorandum, DOJ advised that their Criminal Division had been aware of the phenomenon of animals being mutilated in a manner that could indicate that such acts are performed by persons as part of a ritual or ceremony. This memorandum from DOJ further stated that some of these mutilations which have occurred in Indian country are DOJ's first indication that Federal law may have been violated. ENCLOSURE ATTACHED Enclosure JES:par (2) 198-11 11 JUN 5 1979 EX-124 CONTINUED - OVER 62JUN251925 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.