Federal Bureau of Investigation
Animal Mutilation: FBI records on 1970s cattle mutilation reports
Case file · written 1979 · released April 2011
Why this matters
FBI correspondence and case material from the wave of 'cattle mutilation' reports in the 1970s, including requests from New Mexico officials and a U.S. senator to investigate cases on tribal land, where the Bureau had jurisdiction. It shows a federal agency weighing folklore, predators and the possibility of real crime. A strange but carefully documented piece of rural American history.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Animal Mutilation: FBI records on 1970s cattle mutilation reports." 1979. Released April 2011. https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0010).
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