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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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FEDERA BUREAU OF INVLSTIGATION REPORTING OFFICE ALBUQUERQUE OFFICE OF ORIGIN ALBUQUERQUE DATE 7/21/70 INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 4/3/70-6/26/70 TITLE OF CASE BUCKHORN MINING COMPANY; MAGNETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION; SILAS MASON NEWTON: REPORT MADE BY SA TYPED BY d1 CHARACTER OF CASE ITSP-CONFIDENCE GAMES REFERENCES: Albuquerque airtel to Los Angeles, dated 4/3/70; Albuquerque letter to Oklahoma City, dated 5/28/70; Oklahoma City letter to Albuquerque, dated 6/26/70. ## LEADS : OKLAHOMA CITY DIVISION (INFORMATION) Information copy of this report is being furnished to Oklahoma City Division in view of outstanding investigation that Division. thus /
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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.