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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.
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# Office of the District Attorney First Judicial District March 5, 1980 Director Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building Washington, D.C. Attention: F.B.I. Laboratory Re: Mutilations of Animals ON Indian Reservation; 1905, New Mexico, July 1978 For background information, I refer to your Albuquerque origin matter entitled this follows: Mutilations of Animals on Indian Lands in New Mexico Crime on Indian Reservation. Enclosed for examination is one vial containing several flakes of an unknown material which this office would like to have identified in connection with an official investigation. For your information, since approximately 1975, New Mexico and other states, primarily those located in close proximity to New Mexico, have had incidents referred to by many as "the cattle mutilation phenomena." Stock animals, primarily cattle, have been found dead with various parts of the carcass missing such as one eye, one ear, the udder, and normally a cored anus. Most credible sources have attributed this damage to normal predator and scavenger activity. However, certain segments of the population have attributed the damage to many other causes ranging from U.F.O.s to a giant governmental conspiracy, the exact nature of which is never fully explained. No factual data has been supplied supporting these theories. In May, 1979, responding to pressure from his constituents, the District Attorney, First Judicial District of New Mexico, applied for and was awarded a one year L.E.A.A. grant to investigate these mutilations. 6 MAR 17 1983 I retired after twenty-eight years as a special agent of the F.B.I. to direct this investigation. As previously stated, there are those that have attempted to make a connection between cattle mutilations and U.F.O. sitings. SEVEN
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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.