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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 5/19/71 INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 3/25/71-5/17/71 TITLE OF CASE BUCKHORN MINING COMPANY; MAGNETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION; SILAS MASON NEWTON: REPORT MADE BY SA TYPED BY mcc CHARACTER OF CASE ITSP-CONFIDENCE GAME Albuquerque report of SA dated 3/31/71. Jackson letter to Albuquerque, 3/25/71. ADMINISTRATIVE: In view of the fact that whose interview is reported herein, has stated he loaned NEWTON approximately $10,000 about 4 years ago and because of the fact that considers this to be a loan to NEWTON rather than considering that he was cheated or swindled by NEWTON in any way and further in view of the fact that NEWTON at this time is no longer in the Silver City, NM, area, this matter is being closed. U S GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1970 O--578-139
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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.