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Dffice af the Distrirt Attorney. Jirst Judicial Bistriet Kenneth M. Rommel, Jr.d Cipriano Padilla Diractor Animal Mutilation Project Iavestigator LOCAL A STATE Post Office Box 1209 Diana S. Moyle Teisphowe: (505) 753-713 Coordinating Secretary 827-2195 March 5, 1980 30307063 Director Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building. Washington, D.C. Re; niutlations of Animais oN Fnd:an ReserjatioN; 79os, Attention: F.B.I. Laboratory New mexic o, July.1978. entlemen: COPY AND SPECIMEN clor background information, I refer to your Albuquerque origin matter entitled follows: Crime on Indian Reservation.. Enclosed for examination is one vial containing several flakes of an unknown terial which this office would like to have identified in connection with an "Official investigation. For your information, since approximately l975, New Mexico and other states, primarily those located in close proximity to New Mexico, have had incidents cattle, have been found dead with various parts of the carcass missing such as one eye, one ear, the udder, and normally a cored anus. Most credible sources have attributed this damage to normal predator and scavenger activity. However, certain segments of the population have attributed the damage to many other causes ranging from U.F.O.s to a giant governmental conspiracy, the exact nature of which is never fully explained. No factual data has been supplied supnogting these theories. In May, l979, responding to pressure from his constituents,the District. Attorney, First Judicial District of New Mexico, applied for and was awarded a.. one year L.E.A.A. grant to investigate these mutilations.. 61AR 17J980 I retired after twenty-eight years as a special agent of the F.b.I. to direct this investigation. As previously stated, there are those that have attempted to make a connection. between cattle mutilations and U.F.0. sitings.. 5 9 APR171980