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This FBI Freedom of Information release collects Albuquerque field office reports from July 1970 to May 1971 on Silas Mason Newton, the Buckhorn Mining Company and the Magnetic Research Foundation, which were investigated for interstate transportation of stolen property and confidence games. Agents suspected that Newton was running a salted mining swindle near Silver City, New Mexico, since assays found no mercury or silver in the ore. The file also lists his arrest record. The case was closed after a lender said he had not been swindled.
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## FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORTING OFFICE ALBUQUERQUE OFFICE OF ORIGIN ALBUQUERQUE DATE 3/31/71 INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 12/23/70-3/26/71 TITLE OF CASE BUCKHORN MINING COMPANY; MAGNETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION; SILAS MASON NENTON; REPORT MADE BY SA TYPED BY JJ CHARACTER OF CASE ITSP-CONFIDENCE GAME REFERENCES: Albuquerque report of SA 11/30/70. Albuquerque airtel to Jackson, 1/27/71. LEADS: JACKSON AT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Furnish Albuquerque results of interview with as requested in reAQairtel. ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED NONE ACQUIT-TALS CASE HAS BEEN: CONVIC AUTO FUG FINES SAVINGS RECOVERIES PENDING OVER ONE YEAR ☐ YES ☑ NO PENDING PROSECUTION OVER SIX MONTHS ☐ YES ☑ NO APPROVED SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW COPIES MADE: 87-111909 -3 REC-40 1 Bureau (87-111909) (RM) 2- Jackson (RM) 3- Albuquerque (87-7861) APR 6 1971 EX 101 Dissemination Record of Attached Report 4-1851 Agency Notations Request Recd Date Fwd How Fwd. By U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1970 0-378-139
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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. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.