FOIA: Cattle Mutilation Investigation - FBI Files

FBImuteFiles.pdf
FBI Animal/Cattle Mutilation File
This is a compilation of the FBI investigation of the mysterious Cattle mutilation phenomena of the mid to late 1970's.
Document date: 1111-11-11
Department: FBI
Author: Various
Document type: Investigative File
pages: 130

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Archivist's Notes: Most of the information is legible, it contains police reports, lab analysis, newspaper excerpts, opinions from a variety of sources, US Senate correspondence, file is broken down into two sections, much of the report is on the New Mexico Indian reservation mutilations.

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The following is one of the most bizarre stories about animal/cattle mutilation in the country’s history.

This 130 page document shows cross references between the senate and the FBI.
We also find newspaper articles surrounding this incident in this document.

Newsletter articles were investigated because they displayed the following contents:
PDF page 3 Series of incidents stretching from Oklahoma to Nebraska in which cattle have been of strange Witchcraft cult.

Enclosed is a newspaper article which appeared in the Hastings, Nebraska, Daily Tribune concerning these weird events.

(Archivist note: In this letter, with the reference to the newsletter report, there is no UFO mentioned – PDF page 4 and 5 The attached newsletter article displays the following headline: Are UFO sightings and mutilations related?)

PDF page 6 Letter to the director of FBI (Laboratory) from the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) Minneapolis.
For the information of the Bureau, animals mostly livestock, have been reported as mutilated in the three-state area of this division and parts of their bodies missing.
The parts listed as missing have been the sexual organs, ears, lips and udders, and in some instances the blood from the animals was considered "completely drained." No evidence of value ever located at the scene.

PDF page 7 is a reply to the SAC:
The circumstance set forth in referenced airtel were discussed with Dr. Don Wilson US Fish and Wildlife Service.
He assured that this was a natural phenomena. His explanation was that small mammals such as cattle that have not decayed, predators first feed on soft tissues such as nose, lips, udders and genital areas.
(Archivist note: This was only discussed and not any samples analyzed etc.)

PDF page 8 to 11
Newspaper articles regarding this incident

Pdf pg 19 makes reference to claims that the cattle mutilations are only a forerunner for later mutilations of human beings.

Pdf pg 20 has a newspaper article describing the removal of the cows’ eyes with surgical precision, taking the eyeball and the lid and membranes. Helicopters were without flight plans and believed to come out of Fort Riley.

This article goes on for pages and although difficult to read in parts,
is like a Stephen King novel…
Sons of Satan cult, ex-military men who were in jail and telling the story in the 60s of being in fear of the cult because of their cattle mutilations turning into human sacrifice, which apparently happened according to the prisoners.
Their story was known in the 60’s through the prison system and it wasn’t till the mid 70s that the cattle mutilations became a large scale affair.

One veterinarian reported to the newspaper that he found a type of bacteria in the dead cattle that was normally found in turkeys…Clostridia bacteria. Therefore he concluded experimental projects were involved.

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More evidence comes forward in page 26 about the biological warfare connection: apparently Colorado investigators originally suggested research into bacteriological warfare was behind the mutilations – that animals were being injected with bacteria and toxins and the glands and other parts were being removed to test the effects of the agents.

[color=Red]There was deliberate blaming of UFO's and Satanists or Predators by the researchers to cover up what they were doing.[/color]

Chemical warfare research had been officially banned since 1970 when the Dugway Proving Grounds accidentally killed thousands of sheep.

President Nixon ordered a halt to the program and the destruction of existing stock piles after this incident.
Apparently not all agencies complied.

Senator Frank Church’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had found that the CIA had stored a quantity of cobra venom and enough shellfish toxin to kill hundreds and thousands of people. It was suggested that a rogue gang of researchers were still working on the Clostridia genus….some strands affecting cattle, eg cause blackleg.

By PDF page 27, there is more evidence that bacterial experimenting was behind it. The Colorado investigator, Girodo, enlisted the help of a Dr Susan Colter of the Animal Clinic to conduct tests on a 12 hour dead cow which the rancher had been fit and well.
Dr Colter removed the heart, lungs, kidneys and liver and sent samples away.
She said that a culture of Clostridium sordelii? had been removed from the animal.
The inner organs of the freshly dead animal had already turned to mush – a characteristic of clostridial infection.

Girodo had asked Dr Colter to try to extract the heart from the tiny hole that the mutilators used…she couldn’t.
Girodo wondered then if the mutilators were using razor-sharp extracting devices similar to core samplers used in geologic drilling – to extract whatever they needed without being infected themselves.

Girodo also points out that in relation to the choppers, “one would think, then, that the military intelligence agencies would have gotton on the stick and tried to solve a multi-state case in which helicopters…were creating domestic terror.
Indeed, there were alarming reports that mysterious helicopters were seen hovering above nuclear missile installations.”

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to be continued...

In the official site of FBI you can find the same document under FOIA.



Animal Mutilation Project

Most of the memo/correspondence pages are relating to requests to have FBI investigate the matter and whether of not there is any statutory basis for federal intervention.

Pg 47 Has an article which desribes a mutilated cow in Dulce Area.
In addition to the usual findings ( lip, rectum, udder) markings/fractures to the left front leg and left rear leg consistant with clamps being attached.
It appeared that the carcass had been removed and then replaced.

Apparently the date of this mutilation was exactly 2 years after a previous mutilated carcass found just 500 yards away.

Pgs 55-62 are typed summaries of mutilations.
Pg 63-79 are also summaries of other incidents though they are forms that have been filled in and are largely illegible.

Pg 80 is a letter from a Senator to Attorney General in which it is mentioned that cattle mutilation is not strictly a federal offence and therefore a reason why investigations were terminated. However the Senator is concerned that it is part of an organized criminal activity.

Pg 81 is a letter from Senator John Ryan to SFDOM stating that there have been 69 cattle and 6 horse mutilations occurred in New Mexico since 1975.

Pg 82-86 memo concerning Senator Harrison Schmitt discussing that some mutilations have occurred on Indian Reservations thus a breach of federal law, therefore requesting the FBI conduct an appropriate investigation.

Pg 87 memo from FBI director to SAC. 1979 saying the Justice Department instructs them to conduct an investigation of the mutilations that include the Indian Reservation ones.

Pg 93 begins a rundown of a conference held in 1979 and the documented findings of many specialists in their field. It is a very good read.!!!

Recommendations from the conference included a central collecting of data and examinations done by a qualified veterinary pathologist.

Pg 110-111 is a newspaper article saying that there had been a very recent mutilation and yet when reported, no investigators came even though the conference and its outcome (and the grant of $50,000) had been widely publicized.

Pg 119-120 is a letter from Kenneth Rommel Jr (the FBI agent assigned the case) to the FBI laboratory.
He is asking them to identify flakes of material found on the pickup truck that someone saw with a UFO hovering overhead in the area of a cow mutilation, as told to Mr Rommel.

He explains that he wants to put an end to the theory of UFOs being involved in the mutilations.
Apparently material is sometimes found on the cow that has been mutilated and described as fluorescent. He finishes with the advice that the flakes can be destroyed if need be.

Results from the test on pg 121 is that the flakes were white enamel paint – acrylic latex/emulsion type.
Pg 122 chemical analysis result: flakes of unknown material.
The last few pages of the document are graphs likely relating to the chemical samples.

Archivist’s Notes:
No suitable conclusion was drawn by the FBI amidst large quantities of evidence, if these pages are the only documents available. There seemed to be a prejudice against the connection between UFO involvement in the mutilations.

When I read this information I was reminded of the connection between ritualistic killing, certain types of aliens and the hidden government involvement in alien presence on this planet.

If these killings were for secret research into germ warfare, as the bulk of the professionals’ opinion revealed, I wonder why they needed to do it in such a widespread, public manner.
It could have easily been done via private properties involved in the research with their own cattle.

It appears therefore that the public fear and drama that it caused was also intentional.

Pg 12 Document details Sen. Haskell's renewed request to the FBI to open an investigation into the cattle mutilations occurring in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska. The FBI is very reluctant to open an investigation, citing no federal crime committed and no jurisdiction. This appears to be a questionable contention, at best.

Pg 13 Document details Sen. Haskell receiving a call from Dane Edwards, editor of a newspaper in Brush, Colorado, who furnished information of US Army helicopters in vicinity of mutilations. Edwards claims he was threatened, by whom and for what unclear.

Pg 14 Document details FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley again declining to open an investigation into the mutilations, citing no federal crime committed and no jurisdiction.

Pg 37-38 US Attorney General Griffin Bell gets involved at the Justice Dept. and finally initiates investigation.

Pg 65 Document writer New Mexico State Trooper Gabriel L. Valdez states all NM mutilations have the same pattern. One had a high level of Atropine insecticide in the blood system as a tranquilizing drug. Object of NM and surrounding mutilations has been removal of the lymph system. Samples were brought to three private chemists, "as it appears government labs are not reporting complete findings." One sample contained an ion exchange resin and Vitamin B12.

Valdez asserts both the "Satan Worshipper" and local predator angles have been ruled out due to "expertise and preciseness and the cost involved to conduct such a sophisticated and secretive operation." Comparison is made to predation of cattle carcasses from a heavy Spring '74 snowfall finding lack of resemblance to the carcasses of the mutilated cattle.

Pg 72 Mr. Valdez in one of his reports describes an 11 month old bull apparently dropped from an aircraft and "4 inch diameter footprints (which) led to the animal and 100 ft. (away) where they apparently returned to a hovering aircraft." Imprints appeared to be quite heavy as they made a deeper impression on the ground than the tire treads of his vehicle.

Pg 73 Los Alamos Medical Laboratory analyzed the heart, and the liver was taken to three private labs. Los Alamos Lab findings for the heart were significant for a "rod-shaped" bacteria without definitive classification. The liver had significant changes, defying explanation. Most intriguing was the blood, hide, and flesh of the animal, which suggested "a control type of radiation used to kill the animal, according to radiation experts." 7 people who visited the mutilation site complained of nausea and headaches, though Mr. Valdez hadn't experienced any symptoms after visiting 11 such sites in 4 months.

Pg 74 Bull last seen healthy at 8 am 4-23-75. Low flying aircraft heard in vicinity of where bull was found approimately 3 am on 4-24-75. Mr. Valdez states he was fortunate to find this bull shortly after it was mutilated. His theory is animals are marked some time before they are mutilated. All mutilations are native cattle. No cattle imported from TX, AZ, Mexico, etc. mutilated. His theory also is animals are picked up by aircraft, mutilated, and returned and dropped from aircraft as evidenced by sling bruises and broken bones. He additionally speculates that whoever is responsible for mutilations is very well organized, with boundless technology, financing, and secrecy.

Analysis - Many signs here pointing to elements within the federal government having knowledge of and/or involvement in the cattle mutilations. Reluctance of the FBI to become involved in the investigation, when the nature and extent of the case would seem to clearly bring it within their jurisdiction. Reports of US Army helos, and use of intimidation of the press. Government labs not doing complete work or providing comprehensive findings.

Speculation - If there truly is an underground base near Dulce, NM, as has been repeatedly asserted elsewhere on ATS, the proximity of these mutilations to the Dulce area may indicate some involvement from the underground base in the case. The question then is, what purpose were the organs taken used for?

[edit on 26-2-2008 by Icarus Rising]

guys how come the document links lead me to nowear

I opened the .pdf file in the opening post no problem. It is a relatively big (5.60 MB) file, so you may have to wait a while, depending on your connection speed, for it to download. I'm not sure about the other file linked in the third post, I didn't try to open it.