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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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# UN. ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ## Copy to: Field Office File #: AQ 87-7861 Title: BUCKHORN MINING COMPANY; MAGNETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION; SILAS MASON NEWTON. Character: INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN PROPERTY CONFIDENCE GAMES ## Synopols: SILAS NEWTON, presently under indictment Los Angeles, California, for fraud, returned to Silver City, New Mexico, area January, 1970, and began to organize what appears as a mining swindle Investigation shows contacts have been made with out-of-state individuals to purchase property developed by NEWTON. No traces of minerals claimed to be on property have been located in assay and indications are property is being salted. ## DETAILS: ## AT SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO This matter reopened in the Albuquerque office upon the return of subject SILAS MASON NEWTON to the Silver City, New Mexico, area and the apparent indication that he has begun to operate a confidence game in this area. NEWTON returned to Silver City, New Mexico, approxi mately January, 1970, and has associated himself with business relationship between NEWTON and has not been established; however, NEWTON has opened an office in Silver
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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.