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- __ .'.DUFilNGTHE PASTTHREEYEARS."-
-NOR: THAN 1500 CATTLE t~ 22 states HAVE
KILLEDAND MUTILATEDIHEIFI atooo DRAI _.~ _AND SELECTED oncaaus REMOVED _ _- .. 8!! i-isuR%|cA|_Pt=:Ec|s|o~.r RAN mom SATANIC cutrtsts. - ~ ' SUSPE S G
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AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT BY ED SANDERS _7 V if 7 j j 77* becrtzmtltilated had been caused h;natti-
ral tactors. Such statements triggered a
a en counKansas. roost of them occurring in the l2 Kansas counties aectod, with
rig U. S. ll. which runs ttorth many otlicials maintaining their beliefthrough Kansas into Nebraska. Nebraslta , that humans were involved. _ ialsohad some mutilated rnooa. . _ g There were several bits of evidenceKant-ts sltcri departments. the high- * that pointed away from predators. Thereway patrol and the state bureau oi in- was the absence oi blood and footprints. 4-
-victirniacd cattle ranchers. The ranchers l a large rnudhole. but still there were no
tracks. Then, there was a peculiar ab-
sence of dangling guts and scattered
hunks of esh predators do not read
Emily Post!. Also. though many animals
were tound it secluded areas. others werevestigstioo seemed battled. as did the l tor esarnple. One cowwsseven founditt
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Jas-ere used to the nocturnal depredations
of predators. but they had never seen
anything like the surgical precision and 5
these animals had been chopped up:_ .A- - L _7_,V if pr _ _
ball but also the eyelid, rnemtaranes and
all,1'_hcre was lope more. Much snore.' -'-- "*5-' -' -. ° "'1'" ."-7 .=.=.;..§t
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in April I914, the tsttttilators were at
it again lo Ncbraslta, altlt the same
familiar anodur oprraadi: Blood was
drained lo some instances; there were no
footprints: and various organs were re-
snovod. Qlllilreotly attrgirally. I-ligh Otis-
eials again leaned toward the predatory
eoyotelcrowlracooo-with-arseaipcl .t.h_.-ory. Ilse toll 0! Ittatel, as anutilsticn
hulls began referring to the acta. snounrea
throughout the steamer. and by $o|r'.et'ts-
lvemome Sdeaseshadheeareponedtatheornhuslrcr State. _ - -'
As in Kansas. e rtastor that die mu-
lilatiotta were tlta lets OI helicopter-
oquipped devil worshipers. or *tertil;.§
ritttali$la." began to spread anion; the
good larmers oi Febtaska. Shotgun-
soting vigilaotes took to riding tlte back
roads from dawn to dusk. Ranches
aoroetitnes stopped out-cl-state vehicles
for a cow-blood check. Sense
son lo a pickup apparently tried to wi:-|
an aircraft that was checking 'a pow:
line near _Grattd Island, l92'_eltrasl:a; as a
result. the state National Guard ordered
its choppers to y at a srtieitnuns of Ibis?
feet rather than at the narrnal losvofdc
feet. Sheri! Herb Thompson oi hard-h.:
Knox County reported that. on :92err.l
' hel' tsera sects on nlpl-ts oocaatorls. lcopters _ _ .
when_'snutil.:tions_ oecurn=d._l'here were
alsocoptets spotted it-st._.s92er the horde:
lo labia; there on duty lids, a_ Honey
Crick taroier was shot-ct lrottt a co;-.=
that is-are no ideotictttiort number.
In the hllo|~l9l4. as-the tout:
tapered oli it NCbl'Hok.; the lying
tnttl.ilation show worked its way tap in!
'$outh Dakota and otter into ldinaeso:
Again. copiers and borutg gorinan we
rnuetfia evidence _and the authonu snetlsoriicai discrimination with which
some with their ears "and tongue and.
say. -an eye removed; others with a
swish oi tail. their stdders and a patch ot
neck flesh cut cleanly away: aod nearly
all at thero with the anus and genitals
oeatlyeacised- - -_ -' -- '
11'te removal of cow trttlras and bull
donps caused speculation that weirdos
were involved. Suspicion lell upon one
or snore ot the following: I! she irre-
aponaihle shenanigans ol those greatsleeping farmers ta-indowscloser to elv-
iliaation than predators usually roam. _
r And then therewere the helicopters.
Helicopters withotn led ight plsns_were g
sighted quite often in the alllieted coun-
ties, aotnetirnes hovering above cattle
pens. But authorities were oot able to
catch the choppers or to locate their
landing and refueling areas. One oi the
early theories was that a helicopter-bornefound near lsarns or a few tact ironschose
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caused by disease. The cbplcr-ctttisinp
satanist hypothesis was so compelling.
however. that no one at-at yet ready to en-
tertain the theory that the bull had been
irrj.-cred with Clostritlia bacteria or toa-
irtperhaps for experimental purposes.
For indeed. how diflieult it would have
been for a hirnch of airhorne ltrrltcya to
lneate a cold, dead animal in the dark!
And pnal-death t-nuties 92s1ault.l have had to
he ready for weird smells alto. as the
fumes from s rotting cots causes one to
seriously consider puking as a high-priority activity. ,- . - ' '
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The incident that ultimately brought
the UFO-sleuth nexus into the trttttc pie-
ture occurred in rnid-Deeernlaer I974.
uhcn a cow was found chopped up at the
[ants or Frank Schilclbien. near Kim-
ball. Minnesota. At the sanae tirne. there
were a number ol UFO sightings in the
late. After a rather cursory examination
of the mutilation site. I Minnesota ying-
aatteer bull and avowed Sasquatch oun-
_tactee! earned Terry Mitchell cante to
the conclusion that hovering aliens had
lbcarraed s high-energy ray at the cow.
--There were also suspiciously broken
bran-that. rrndoabtedly caused. so Mitch-
ellt theory went. by heedlesssattccrite
aeronautics: and tltcn there were strange
iodcrtraiions in the ice on the la_rrner's
]aondobt-iotraly gotrad by UFO landing
hear-and peculiar circles in -the snow,
srhich appeared in an aerial photo. . '
UFOlk like steal: as rntreh as most Amer-
leant--although, again. the parts ot the
animal taken were _thote seldom round-in
any hut a tveirdos casserole. Neverthe-
lclt. Mitchell's theory created a media
view on Tons Snyderls NBC Tomorrow
abovrin late t9T4. ' -
F-ltsras at this point that serious saucer
Jrtdents decided to get into the case. Dr.
1. Allen Ilyttckr director oi the pres-
tigious Center tor UFO Studies and pro-
Iesaor of astronorny at - hlorthwestern
Urtersily. Minneapolis
investigationthe wind and by Schifelbien himself; the
saucer circles were actually sraweovered '
Silage .
Word spread quickly antong UFO re-
aearehers across the Unite-I Slates that the
highly respected Dr. ll!-nel had taken an
Interest in the tntttilations. One oi those
who heard the news was lerornc Clark.
a UFO researcher of atllltc reknown. ttho
had been investigating the cattle mutila-
tion: since they rst occurred in his home
stare oi Minnesota in the spring ot D13.
Clark wrote to agent Fliclaingcr in lana-
ary 191$ and related the allegations ol a
convict turned tn. Kenneth lattlzston.
OO ' a.t_rrr.a aaran - --
Dttting his many months of has-estigm
tion. Clark had talked with Ross Doycn,
a Kansas state senator who.-in late I973,
had lound a $00-pound heifer dead on
his lartn, with a sis-inch hole carved in
its belly. When a report of the incident
was carried in Kansas rtea-tpapers, Doyen
told Clark. he was contacted by Banhscon,
who at the time was serving 's sentence
tor bank robbery at the l.ea92'enwortla_
Kansas! Federal Penitentiary. Banltsten
wrote to Doyert that the rnutilationfttere
the work oi s clandestine society of
Satan. which had decided to eapantl it's
public viciotrst-test. . . . _
Doyen did not place rnueh_c1'edihility_
in Benltstotfs story. but this did not deter- Q, >
,- F113 htt'l'fll.A'tlON htYS'tEltY Moat terrifying at ail, 8trn.krro'rr' r....rrterl glut! !_!_re anfnrrrl mlrlilnriorrs aref _ I rt -I 4' ll I Ilhtrrrr-sac, or lurmart .raeri<£._ji=;;.§.;q-'3,--._
more details of the cult oi Saran, the
seeds oi a large and ntytteriotta Fed:-.;
hvestigatiort were hrotrglttao shoo: at.
over the neat lew months. the cattle r..-
lilationa aptcasl like I psychotic epide: :
hto 22 Western states. '.-_---_--_ ,y
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52- Flicltingefa urging, Clark sir;-2
again to Banlttlon. who had horn tr:.:-.r-
lcrred to hlarion Federal Penitentiary ;:
Illinois Ianltstort replied with aeter-e 2:?-
Ilit Ind the horrifying allegations ::-'.-
tlnued to low. In I letter ol .Ia:tuar'y 3;.
I973. tor instance. Ianltaltlll averree La:
hull sex organs had been en-theddea 1:
Gt Indies of I Ital-ttlg' rttrtataay c:~.';Za
murdered sotnevlaere it the Mir!-" tar.
lanltston alsoeotstintled lossltthar he ae
transferred to a hiinriesota prison. 1112::
ltc would he safe from inmate repriufe.
Flicltinger contacted the United S2:
District Attornefa olloe in Minuet:-:
is. and the U. S. Attorney appraaa.
Federal Itadgc Myles Lord. a res;~::-.-.
Minnesota liberal jurist. Judge Lora can
taeted the warden at Marion Penitezze.-1
to explore the riossibilities of a tlansfr-.:.
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{Continued Jrorn gage $2! was taken
lrorn Marion to the Dakota County hit.
in "I-lastieit. Minnesota, by U. S. Mar-
ahah. On February ldth. agent Fiieltinger
conducted hit rst irtterr_ogation;tnith him,
as observers, viere lerorne Clark and a
former Army yaratroop =eommaado
named Brad Ayers, actite with the Center
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member el the rrtutilation mob hirntelt.
iinitsfoa iiieied during the iatea-ie--' _
dtat be had been in correspondence with
gertg naernbeqqt the mob _llottrttl the __¢dhntry.'1'Ic aaitl itliit he 556- ollg?ttaIIya_ -
Iteard about the group {tern other inmates
Q had retarded his conversations in a
notebook crarrtrned with prison-cell goa-
uip. He then outlined a aeertario that
ahed light on m_arty puzzling aapecta ol
the tnutilatiortt. - .
. Bankaton asserted that the group used a
pvierfui animal tranquilizer called ?C?
-an calm the cattle. They next heid
amyl nitrite to aft animal: nose to causell-l'heart-to rapidIt'..tben withdrew _blood via a' |e veterinarian syringe.I92..- a.--n- ea '4aQl.0:nll L-'-tuneup Ila; annaaIUGIG GIG III lvvafa anti aruucwb can can-an
walked on pieua of cardboard: in anew.
they med biotnorehea to melt the tracks"
around the artintatr. On: reason for eru-
anlutma claimed, II to
drew-orlt of eatraterreetrra
- lanluton stated that at _Le:tve_n92wurth - -ifig it '-Pertitcttti:°r{ around Q69. he had r_riet theteartrrer _ a=ehapte_r of a,li.92QB§ n_iotor-';'-q~cie- gang and that -this ' bike? 1aI]ted-
-- --r'i-- ttie tttiiatia-1:. % biker1.0 Q. W GI I I Ci
-' ' aha deaeribetfbia capcrietteca in the Air
'-_-Force, ta-here be bad driven i general
' around to inspect various missile eiba. In-_
rag qomc.iIl Alaska I-le~toId Bank
o£aair'reai. o%e:r.==-.i'.eete.-.;-aeribed tvaa a!t-Caucasian; R waa ca-
tremely anti-blztlt and anti-Mealean. lta
adherents, in lacl, could bc tailed Salam-
aeelta. Aral what was the name oi this
organization? lrt bit letter!-and I It-va
aeen some I5 oi them-Banbton refers
to the r-turiiaiors aimpiy at re faeeuhi ii
Fliekinger, however. both lanltatnn and
Dugan aaltied a tell-known national
organization devoted Id the Ironhip _ _of Satan. . , - Leavenworth Penrteatiary at him: w:=- -
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tfoatittttnf from putt 93! Investigation
h unclear. I have read one report, pre-
t pared by Flickinger and dated April I0,
tars, in which many other reports anti
int-estigstiorn are mentioned. For a few
months in 197$, the Federal iosernment
apparently illtjestigatetl satanic organiza-
tions and activities all over the country.
The tnotives of the informants also
rctnaia a hit unclear. Bantston. for In-
uante, appears to have wanted to ntske
, I tlr-tl so that he could he transferred-to
a at-rte iail in his home state of Missis-
tsptia he also scents front his Iettcrs to
in-e wanteti to mate some money front
the yttltltcation of his stot;y. pan Duranhead ol eattleItt fact, there are more
cattle than people in 'lesasantI it h
obvious that a group of tttonc}-rd muti-
iators could chop away pretty much to
the tune ol their own lolly. More than,
500.000 cattle rcportotlly die each year
In Texas from natural causes. so a few
hundred ntoos ttttttilaled by night stealth
would not be signicant.
The Tears rnutes reached puhlic ot-
tention in Noscntbcr I914 and then ap-
peared to atop. More castes occurred it
early I915, with parallels to eases in
other slates. On January Zltth. for ht-
stanee, Hopkins Couitty sheri Paul IL
Iones announced that _a hlootl-slurping__tS=.ttte;_';iiueqs.t infoitnant, transits iii-.3groiiis'cstttr.; tttett oie-taisvttt Disciples
exchange his testimony for a reductioh oI
his s.-ten-year sentence. ..
For reasons unknown, Federal ol-
kials decided in the_late spring of I975
mt to pursue the investigation further.
One apparent problem with the inform-
antfstuty was their allegations regarding
the national leader of the rnutc mob. Ac-
aeuttiing to ianitston and ugan, this
_ Itaa_hatI sen-ed a sentence In Les92-en-
' hath on a, hank-robbery conviction
,'.tIhicls _accurate! and had recently
- atovol to Austin.'Teaas also accurate!:
hunter, uhen 1_exas reporter John
hlatcig obtained the alleged leader's lt-
wl and jail history. it indicated that he
' bl ltcen in jail during most of the time
' "at theinformant~l'eI.~IirhetI he wit roam-
Egfrom state to state performing hema-
--"-jc-usre-'uonia.._ . ,__ ._ -.,:. ':U$arrte,autl1o:ities hclic92c..llte_Hat92]tstOtt_-1 Iluganallair was part of a master escape
pot predicated on the assumption that
_ a small county jail _is easier to ee than
~ 'ai'tg Federal prison. On my '31. Bank-
sbodid, in fact, escape from the jail-in
lusts, Minnesota to which he hatl been
ntnyd front_ I-lauingsh. along with an-
ibr '|irisonerE'when th'c§F"slrcte a'|'a§ie
hndcd sis hosts: later, Banltston insisted
== k aha: prisoner. e murderer,
Itata-d to go along with the caper.
D.-pa. meanuhile, had lacen remanded
- Ijesas. and hltet Iartkttotfs
ebtle, Dugan escaped, too: he was cap-
, ltd on June I901. during I holdup
Ilelopl in Glenwood Springs. Colorado.
lankttoa later asserted that Dugan had
etcapd in fear for his Iile. .. -
Despite the doubt east on the satanic-
iual tleury. the ltutilatiorta continues! to
qrt:nt"'atstiiaaa:re=ne" itirequeney_ in
I915. Ihcy were Especially common In
I'eaas,where Iankstonwllohavchis
fear-lled innings as well. - -
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_ acute-nan ssuraa
One stara at a snap oi Tens. with its
254 eountita cuotaining some II,N0.0001 hestjshtiuid _"_a'§i§njIic_ititt arnottnt 'of.nico-was heliescd responsible for the muses.
In Kaufman County, east of Dallas,
mysterious helicopters were reported and
police oflicers started directing thcir'sput-
lights into the night sky. And Tess au-
thorities tended to ascribe the mules to
those coyotes with table rnanncra and
stomachs big enough to hold eight
of rnoo bloodetren though, as in other
_sts_t_a;_ there.were Instances in I'esas_
where predators had uncharacteristically
ts-oidcsl -cattle that had haen tnutilattnl.
Usually, when I cow lies dead for I
Iew days. the ripening fumes spread wide-ros * "*5. Q1» -.r
l;- and predators quickly arrive by Iand,- -
air and burrow for the feast.!
-- -Also,-in Januaryrthc Fort Wurtlt Star's
Telegram paid for tosionlogy tcstsloo 1'
I-cite; fauna near drop-'n-a-.-scat and thc_
tine -in the.Iis'e|f and-t_hc blood; nicotine
'1 the trlaterial most commonly used in
_tranquiliaer guns. In hlar;h,_a coy pep _
eho north of -B ns udder PM to ' it Sprint: '
had been rernos-edhut carefully. so that
the stomach lining hail not been punc-
tures!-Ind_.it= loan-on! trot ttnortl:
throughasrnallhplcinitscheat. - .
There were UFO: repnnol also. In
Cochran County. following nurnerotn tly-
htg-object reports in catty hlarch. two
routes were Ioundjn a.largc whi.;st ficltl.
each Iyits'g in a'citcIe ot trot-neit. notiona-
wheatatsout 30 Iect in diameter. Shcritl
C. G. Richards checked the circles and
reported nding some radiation residue.
_ Iy late March I973. Teaas investiga-
tors had gotten wont or due Federal
itvettiption of the mute Itulr in Minne-
sota. As scserti of aaI|aectcu _" ' %
ltctnhersineIuding the _hader--were
supposedly residing in Tessa. the late
deportrnont of ptl-lic safety. as well as
local polio: departments. oonsluctol sur-
veillance opct'ali.atsa In-Austin aotl. in
Hurst. Texas, near Fort Worth. '
Texas, however. had its own primesatanic suspects In the tnutitatrons ease! a'
group called the Sons of Satan. In I97-t,
a Iiilgore College prudent had written a
paper in which he said that this group
performed dawn rituals in tshich'cattIc
were chopped _up. The student's then-e
was dcttroyed by M9 or more of lit
teachers, who felt that the material las
disgusting. our sword ot the paper reached
I. 0. Tinsley. an employee of the I'esas'
and Southwestern Cattle Ilaiscta Ass-oci-.
alion,'who was Ittvestigating'the
latiuns; Tinslcy Incatetl the student and
iii%icsi amuad Tessa, taiizing with
oral of the student's sources. _ _ ' --
?'.l_92'-gtc92s'gfa motorcycle gang in Cali-
fornia that also called itstrlt the Sons cf
Satan: In I970, a pack of its snenthers
murdered an Orange County tsoman and,
acoordingtoayoungmanwhohtermolested. dlereti her hart to Satori by
placing It in the woman's station Iagort
and setting the vehicle atire. The leader of
the California Sons of Satan claimed to
heleng to a larger saianic organization
that regt.g1_a_rly sacriced Itturtanyictit-rts
it oercrhonics Iti Northern and Southern
California. l_Zolorado Investigator be-lieves that the Sons of Sarah are involved
is the ntutilationgand thag.tlse of
Ute |rtuti_la'tiona Is'ciatldhsiirte.laactcriolog-'
ha!-war,fa'tu teseatdtrl Iottnd tic intlica.
lion, however. ehat.t'Iae Caltfotnia Ind-
ljeitas Sons pt Satan acre connected. ';.'. .
. Bctugeen Ianaty Q Qptetnlacr !9?$. _
M'aIse_ig o[.t.Ite Forr' llfonh Ito!-zfeleirn aqotc a"ig_ries_ §'rtieE_'s"rittithe mutiIatior£.'.I'hc articles eicntt.taiIy
attracted the attci-|tion.ot ntate-ttnia Its-
-Iorniaot lanIteton,'wht_s hegan o-corro-
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err: % at-at-.a-..-r-..-:."tI-at at-asapondenoe with hlaltcig. it which b
Iepoattaltttofltitoltlchnrpealntl
aIsogttr_te_up_withautnt3t92ett'__ -traitor; for rem. out r. s.rT..:..a..,
thcterrorthatBankstoneatrsed'm1eaas
tirotspriogandatunnteroiiiii. .
Inasrnaltcirysosahotl-Iottston.Ior
esantple, feasts Dcparuncnt of Put-l_tc8aIeryagettt.sealicdusgcthertItentayor.
l.lIeltieI-ofpoliceantltheeitysninapet
andannottnoeddtatthe
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so-rnriats. In Mayower
JratIr=lIotll°tt="I="l=
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Itoth places was total fear-re. - -
hiearttshilc. learning that the .Fr.92Ieral
Inrcttigatiots had hccn called otI,_ hlalsei;
heg.-an to treat lanisten with one au-
tion. WI:-tn Itutlttttttotntstrtanctnl in a
Bier than in nttlillors were g.92_ing to
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renders-out in August at the llig Bend
National Park In south Teaas, Makeig
egntneted the park sup-erint.-ndent. Iho
watch-|_. but no gathering look place.
When llanltston promised to deliver I list
ot mute-mob names, Maleig waited
patiently {or several sseclt, but no listlrtived. '. ' ' - "
. lankston then eontpouniled his cred-
lriliry problems by hinting that I stock-
brol~erI daughter he had already ngered
.,_Is I member ol the rnute-mob was about_ - I9 "or! Jometbing possibly baleful to
-_tvt.s=t;, trim; rook the veiled threat
' icriously and gave the Fort Worth police
ae=- . - I $<t>¢'
her I975, I want the police to have
plenty of leads. _"' - Ir '
-__ :_Around this time.CIplain Keith Wol-
Jerton, I yery diligent investigator from
th Clteasle County. Montana, sheriff:
departrrsent. trlveled to Marion Peniten-
tiIry to ve ' Banltston I polygraph
_ -eurnination; Bankston Iailed on impor-
tant questions. Halzeig followed up by
calling Illcged members oi the mutilation
Itob'including"the alleged leader Ind
Irortsan--Ind Iostnd ~no'ir92dicItion oi
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3 he-Wwarv Mid; in .I~1vnIrM_=~_Ihrdwkt. -' ' .,' .
-~ In early Octobh ms. st.s.t; mu.
I Icathing Irtielc it tIte'8r:r-Telegram._ , , ..- ..,.I741 1 L , ,_ _ r r_ 7 at ._-'y_ .
people dist.-rung deed eorresrer lor blo-
Iogirol or expr'r"i'rrtrrrtuI purpose: [empha-
sis addedl. The report also stated: We
Ire ol the opinion that the Ituntan In-
volsement in nmtilations is I_lad gener-
Ited by publicity and is only temporary.
A lad! You know: llula Hoops, phone-
btioth |"J92til92g,' the twist, tiolt against the
Ivar. and nbw reeteetorny and teenagers
with tceret dried udder sacs hidden in
their closets. The report's prophecy did.
ln fact, come true; the mutilarions virtu-
ally ceased until the [Ill of I975. I-hen
otutititions occurred it the northwest
part ol the state. . _' _I There had been rnutilations on oppnlte_ hly'covr tongue had Men postmit Sacramento, t_Ialil'ornla. Ind the s
had uIe_d Christmas stamps Iith
rotted _a'n_gels on them.-Aha! t tho
I clue! For were not Squeaky Fr:
Ind her pol Sandy Good running at
Sacramento tight It that lime. Innou
imminent gore-And were they not
Ittlrid in red robes and red't.-nni. s
Iiad they sent the tongue? It was I
tioo I svarnever able to Inner. H
I could arrange to rtase someone at
girlslt'theyhadserstthetongue.Sqt
bad lunged at President Ford with
and was in ha. . -
' About I month Iher I re.-eis-r
erf t:..t.-.a.-tiiussmritw o1_4.;-'».no., 1...'n¢.,t.t1..tn Boulder.
sreadinthcs in otl91$ snit- Thry P _ I" t _ -
by the tall. animals were being carted up
Ill over the state. Elbert County, in pat-
Iieular. enperienced I surnrner Ind tall of
terror of the sort that talk-show comedi-
InsIacribetotheItrectaolNe92vYorkCity.'I'eople were afraid to venture tar
abroad in country Ivlscrrbelieoptera
hovered It night and cattle Ly "
It_it'I and mutilated in_thc datln. . ,' ,
. Despite the o_'rg'aniaed eorts oI latr-
'crtIorcetitent otltciIls_ the tnsltilatiortl Qt» -.
I'rtu:<l uneherlred in Colorado until the
Ital snout lell ittthe fall; then they'eInti -
.s.ssrz.'it.-trm tins Iinishedin r..s*..- "'.92~=I=¢'92t>'¢I92==>-»'II~r'1'=-=M'92*t" 51--
- ' '1', - . ~ blood driILers.or aea-erared S-Itanils: II '
__: Evert he "Jae 52:2!-?e!t'gre.¢!-bete-5 eb-
'|teared, saw... mtnititiorii were d_iseov1-
end in ten more states. and were becom-
New Mexico. tor ttt.stIrsee,'vounds were_,_' Iound to have Ierralcd edges. In Utah. I
3.United StItes_DcpIrtment ol Agriculture
innounced.thIt .In animal-Q" autopsied had been injected with
eteria or I toxin; his superiors told him
It be didni shut up, he would be red.'-;-".;-__-"I_n QlrlIho!B.I-vhere there had
.--. mute report its I97-l~'itir.ena and- --'-"-otters: gresy alarntedovcr-the irinir or
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--David Iloren ordered I tull investigation
the Ie is nl the Oklahoma rt- a. '_ °=P=
.~aseotolPublie Sal'ety.I'l92t¢h.Ifrerir92-
no
I' pertigaring 26 possibly mutilated Itirnalt
Ind eonsulting various pathologists. their
,htiesdgItorI anti radiation experts. hood
'-arepnrtssart htarclt s,tIrs.
_= %rer-.*..-tr-esamemr-,.i.-'--e.-.t#.-.=
-ltion. III: Inimsla had died ot natural. -5-canes. And who was dropping away It
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ilk-fore: tmrnbcra that the human it-
tsrit-...-....t ea: be :.-t':E'.'-.'°.-.! t-.92 =.'-'i92'idH='l~'
'I'ttetrtptingtr_spthenIta_dor|oune
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I I - J - I Q I ',. ._ - u"mm i I. I-. __bI92h|'92EI-ll ml. h92CIlDH_"' -.. J, oor . _ _ael.t-ae,r.vJng_ jailhtzre l°"*"'92 "5 W" M FIN 17'! Illi-
' I I . -rI'do. for I pnettiy Jedding and I It
Iltdldecidedtodriveslossntoi
County. which had been bauly I
the I975 mute wave. My family
drove Ilortg Color:tdo'l Rot-'rc 8
area ot vast terr-..in.Ind tenees th.
tor miles, broken oeeasionally by a
Iot:ranee.- - - ,-Z'- -. -'
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Ieat, I went b the Iherltfa ofl":er
learned that a.Itsrri_la.tiogt had bee:
eoveled that very'tnortu'ag.-As I
talking with undersherill lill 9292';;.;'
érrw lilt on. eherill amp s-.
leturoed the Colohdo StatI'l':
iry laltorarory in I-set Collins. III.-re
uken the Ininidéi Iettiate Short-'-e
-loo In =os'I.o-psyé: Lllct. oer gr.-2 par :1
bIthcslserillIpe-s.eloppedbs'- at I - a ' . ' ' - . . ~ - . _ - , , ,- 3. 2""-92 Ivtrtozn at-warrant! - _o. lIl¢|92 vmrdos were sns1stv¢~l..l92I= l|!92".92:'!!l_. dressed rs-sen with I.l92-5:1-b.etl_ed bet.
' - ' wsnI..ir.92~e_-_- oel!l.t=g:ri.r;lg=1;=t":=2!'Il I ,'?!e*!e;n .e'I_grt.L'_nt-e at !=<...._r tor the nit.-m._r.i time chop-u1tI.__ rm_i_s_ty.*'ar, "slate -t-t_4;;sg,r_1- as
bond. The oott92'erIItl'ott on Itout_'It"rvr:IYosvr§r.trtot_tts_Iov;uatIcB.92_ - . III-llilililb - _- - "" '
' I did not I-ant to'beeonte'Inuotved In,-f Elbert County had had its _§tI rt
this ease. In New York. where I Ive,
therelsadbeensewcralrrnalliternsabosn
Ihe..,tII.ttilItio|tt_jn press Ittnllf,
I915; l had added the clips to my lite
marked out-sac animal sacrices!-
opened-during my ol the
iiinson eian in tare and-"I9?I-.....--"'
Iorgottea about them. My mind_
bombarded tor too many years-srith gore
data. Ind I really wanted I respite Irons
the images ot violence and tnull-buttery.
especially tegittlillg tin Killing of cattle.
.' Then one nsot-ningit was June ll.
I91.S-I received I phone all Iron the
otlieeolmytiterar-yIgent.'l'heeallersaii;lthat I pact-Igielorsvarrled to lie Item tin '
-uhti-her -at srv I-teneon bone 1!! P" "" ' I
hg odorilerousnas. Upon ill! Illlih ll
strapping: Iere removed: hide In I
box it which resided I large war:
tongue. I irttantly recalled ly Ilc ol-hosts in ea't'Iy_t92|92ril I973. Ind ts.
visited'lt Iuly. the rIInhe_r I-as 1
-30; the gure I-,rs_to well to _aro-.:-' by rill; 1ti=' odunty it-in s brsI:'e'-'.
_mutilaro_rs. as there I_'¢l'I only shre-
ll! otlieers to Covet 1864 sqstare :1
..%re-.al§' err -a. .a.-rd. Aid the I
yrs-foo one eoutd eaten t.te:'.t. 1.
ceri would-|=l.olpe. Ind thert_t.ht
would vanish. Ihe iherill told nie
Vitnam the oopter pilots had Ica-
hug the landscape even is nrgeed
Io u to tnsdlle their on Iound.
Tberc III In tlsstated etrirude
htplirationr. was Itilul to-thirst:
bi stay. do G-M
ti Involved at rt; anus...
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an zsvunonoa noun mnm'4t:-
tuaol. nu. I looked for an entrance
u the grazing range. envisioning n cross-
lnontry elm: titer evil Satin ltknlittt. I
amped the ear andzot out to listen for
vhirrint 0!. ¢9P¢l'_P'!¢=li Illa 11*
- M ,di{:pfq3I¢d, om! there .9292'a
an but tlrivc any-Fad. I Was
lxlutt: OI dis-Ippointntent llttl
mean, who pally wants lo
an unlit nieiaospq wrgicai
1 And the ugly Itel_dlinet:
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.-we were' ' __ , 9' élfny '92.!!.:'et: 1.2!; @!!sis!!'
'large thirty white toilet
been trawling at BS miles
to catch lip. hoping to
liceme number, but
The trailer, I decided.
ge enough to carry _n
and I lad just suggested
shes-ia -plliee that
was min; trucks to
_._QE 9?W°IIX IIIP ' ' ' V '
hie: I Wu q-@115; with the
iptor at the diiniet attorney:
' Tmlal. Colonic.
the thooq that the mails-
__ at I h:terioIo;ieaI-i_mr-" '|t6it-'1! "islet 'Oi:'utl6
Ami. or ground-support
lationinpoh 92n_rould
to 'open_li_o;_u-ill:
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dau: are
nil with
o Ilnqhet-it Kim,
Ind also: at nod hit one.
pullin; n-l|lle_lnilen'."'
ab. -lfq-p plates:
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-nuuui all
.180 you ln_vo anything-
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;.-e~-qr '-n I . _ ' } _ _'!laI t l - .. I ._ _J! aao - - -- - -- a - 2 5 aw--or-.r'.-.-. =-=-Q».-= --er, _,: Q . L i . ' _ - """. 0 . - - .0 0...-._--Ii... 92 1mt: MIJIILATION aw Ii-rt? Ar Iar as Llutt-e been able 10 deter-t re, It wag lnvettlgatorr Color-¢ti"d_who rst suggested that tteriologfeal-tt'nr'larc research tr-as be. 31 the rtrtrri!qtlprr.tt_a;';t,3e-f;§£;§;=g..31' a__ I 7_ I QILTT "_t_' ' '_"| l J 77
perfect: 'l'l92eyve got a van: they've got
all the ground support in that trart pttllirtg
that trailer; atttl the chopper it in the
trailer. The chopper, the investigatorcorttinttcd.-coultlltetattitttheairitta
matterolrttiautet. - " '
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At far as I have been able to tleterrrtitte.
It was investigates its Colorado who lint
atrpeettc that bacteriological-avatfare le-
aatrch was ht.-ltitttl the ratitilatiortt-that"
apimalt acre being injected taith bacteria
or tottitta and that glands and other an:
- yet-c being-tcnmet! to tett_tlte eectt cl
hlame on UFOt"or aatattitta or predators
at a cover for what was really going co.
, a
t-'5the whole phenomenon more cogent.
and it matte: marry things about it very
understandable.
Bacteriological and cherttical-warfare
research. eacept for purely ttctcrrait-e pur-
pntca. has been banned in the United
States tilice I910.-'lhc Na grew out cl
an ittcldeitt itt]Jl:tlt in March tttbl, ttherl
thouaatttla of cheep were accitletttally
tilletIbyde.u.llyVXrter~egattlutap-
paretttly lloagtetl aa;ay_ from the Dugtaay
Proving Orourttlt. a haeteriologtcab
warfare reteaech eertter lcatul aoutha-eat,
of Salt Lake City. rte Army pm local
_a ' - um _ |'ancher_a_ aornethittg like. S 't§.Q"9_ ,5-= "'~§aZ§= t'Z'tii?ieii't;'i§i t'?, 't.;- t. ,t"'t-?t"1!'¢=r~e'~t~t ¢-wp»-Ir="§=I=it~- _-~ -1
After that tattle ovtne indrteretton.
tltere tatta lrctttcntlout preaattte. particular-
._.§.'?'_-.'__'!'he't.lteorylt_aaa;6ttteappea!,aaitntaltet ly ia"Utah,to ban auch research arttl. ,t-- ~:..--_#_ '_"*1 ~'* I .-- __-
dcveloprncnl. Tretirknt am-tea 'Ni92'o1
Itirttaelf ordered a.halt to the biological
and chemical progi-ants and the oatme-
tiott of uiatittg stock piIea."l'l92c order ta-as
lrarnctl it November I969 arttl tent to
Federal agencies in Ft.-ivrttary I970. -.' -
. Not all Goterttrtteqq-,et92cict complictl
with the Prctiderrtial 0t'tlcr._ hater-er.
Senator Frank Church's Senate Seiec:
Corntttittee on Intelligence Iountl earlier
this year that the CM. for lttatanee. had
atoretI.a quantity cl orthra venom and
enough aaaitoala 9-ttdtrtth toxin! to titt__
lttrntlretlt olthotrtantls ol httrrta:92t- Seo--'
tor Church: committee also Iountl that
the §I_lA-had -rocket! agtray tttany e_ag§tter_r. of toairt-atidfor Babteriioltlii fateidia"getttta.Oneefthetheorictittt multi-
'" atatc tmrtilationt cate lathatarogee hat-.:
ehetearcbera Ia rotting yitlt bacteria
Ibere are some 93 specter of Gare-
la. among which are act-era! tliteatea that
alllict cattle:-tl-tote ioclpde blaeklcg CM-
Iridium eltatrti-I! ant! malignant edema
l'ttrttatI,a!to. Tftrtttttt ir__cawet§_,by Q
at the aiatft heat potent loaitu tapro-
Qaee_d.bg Clo,rrrr'dt'rtIrr_lot;trrrrrrt which
cautea trot:-rratim-aeottrtlittg to Sentient
I'leI§h'§ Ckeniieal and _lt'r_vloglerrl_ll'0-JQIQ-r-t4tll:fif'§-'I""JJI"ll lei:-t I III!
'l5lltt'itatta:c rol-itlrtlitttan trnia Qott
tltE6M'teall¥ eat:-ghody la the world- lavitttrattyevctyaueuteretlaae
1-_I'0_3-§I92Il_RttltII92l, lqfectior-.t__§ar.et'e_-lot-ta§la.Ire the eat.rte1.~l'£ii.@122: =-'*"~ Y .':"""'.*:.':<'*°'.;~r' . ".'"l'"3"° . . . -' tart tr» t!'ate'_6f aha : t~¢t»::¢r¢:'
.Q l>y.vagtreIy irorded'Iabotatory report:
.fRPl"# 1'! the atate govemuettt latera-
_c=wr§:'tt.h» ev=tt.b==ntatrtca have hen attp
a term:
a no it:
.t9"£.
. Gireile
letcign ta
" area:
a on .-:
=.=eftlteiottridiageittta. _ -- -
C'lo:trtdiurrr.aeprtertm!. Ctcatridia attack
p Ooatritlia Closuirliuar _!eratttJ'and bee
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ndreoJytolttttehe."=- _ -ctr-0 e»-e¢-- Q .Q-PO v-O I0--I ow nus I: "f¬92 fThe coma» llttreatt ot tldti,
oitially hogan it: investigation of
otutilatiuns in the summer of I
Ilse urging of Governor Rich:
Lmm; however. its report--ts-hiclt um
reieated in Novetnberel92o92I-ed that
some investigation had been done as
early 6: April £915. The $5 e-as
Need on tome 20_J_ Incidents of apparent
ntitihtion: the eonelttsioa was that 95
peent ol the mutilation» had been
retfsedby predators. ._ , ..
This prompto_d o trot:-state chorus oi
min" and ieen Root local le92v<nforoe-meat ieials, who mutt leave begun uthe C.B.l.'tt&s tleatiitg them-like
luot.-i92_ of durndumt. Moreover. o!Qt|rnBet£T,ooitnals that-the C .- .'- "to %-we t-zze 2%-$5 iii w
hat], Ill hot! at died, the Ieilott
from "|llttttnl causes. The impli-
cotton, of eounenm tltat "ranchers lad
ehopptzltiteenimalt upinordertoeollect
iuuraaee money {or tltalieiotrs-mischief
lg-iaéitta w='~'!=" I.v*=4- _rter. _l'the report tree rafueu tonleaning of "t_uturai t::t_:tee.-" ;-, -
It-92t'it was peture that uftlmoteiy that
"ho the O-_ll-1,!-tvmlstor BN8. -up--1
pner Dotothylidi-idze. of the Colo-
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lonely oht-med. A blizzard in_No92'em- .to ms uh tltoiis:tnds'ol tattle out ' * e A e do e ;;._- ___ ,
on he n-ye and the ooyotet of the West let: fat of loetninlly ilt'Ipom'bl:_lt.|t]et'92' on -the,etiet to e_o1ve l-e|i|lti-
,eg_ eewuunt eartle-gorge mgnevvem grlteretay-_.tl92ie_etti::=.-If beam lad _heert trare one-';gt. which ti_eIie'o§::r-Someeitia 1-Hana ehéetzat -am the ten-" temB~'=a-'u='ioit§ti= thBf5éié' are-1-'93: tea _92'¢l'rBSJ9292'e':t¬ "f---'~
Indll !o'r bovine hart. There lad 'lntleotl, titer: here ohnning repoitr -F... - . - ' - ".-
entng pleat _ot Town. Items. which
_|ncested_l0.009_ of the ringed eareae
a :32.-.!'.:, 'e=.'e. %:-i or o-"=2
htorite treati ol'.tbe mbtilotors. So mist"
' In the rut of ts;1s.- hieutgim cirao
itahgetl for Dr, Sm-an Qoher. director
dth Trinidad, Colorado, Irnimll
oiooduct e-eld autopsy on e'.rn_ut1Iitett'
hrttten I2 bourieltef death.
_ 41'» Q -_o . healthy 'l|ei[er2_' fl InterIletlirodd. v - - '
huI.c-Mep? 92.. I :.;o' : . Q ,:heen'_two_oueh hem extractions»-on that nmtetiottt-heli'eopteri,mete neon .-
I_t92t.tfes foq-isd'near'§VeItcnburg. Cnlotado. -Joverin! above, nttelear-tnitu'ie.i92tltaII.|-..-,Iu.r|..t- e...-.- r.-"..m.:-.t:.t;it'..r :.........e. 2:.» -:._ e.-.|:__ r....._-|_;.|.......-._..-..II llill BIIIII §UIlbl ;UIU HIS IIUPII II 92IUII'I- IIIIIIQ-IDIIIIII-lII7ZIli_IPllI_ll-1:4 one heifer. -ELM; aid. I ptzld her, Iii! Ioekedrrtold rne,of spending long: ' lntl'get t a{t.out ire.-;e.j', 'gb.§§ at." -bell ' _t_¢..£"!¢ n... it. .1, it .>,.~.r.¢ -. imam-1'35 ¢'.°£§"3. '.%',.T§it.2_- -
have been done-on two other animals. etnttn nit-1e llior openiodlby Iii:
Andi-heeoitl, "I'here'|noI:yyot.to'ar|' Ait'Foree.'Il!eare:h:saltoe92|Ierienood
io'lt.2-Sltetriedit:-end tlteoouldtrtdo it.-" - hot-and-law voeveeo! tnutilationii.-_i-ll; _ - 92'5
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-, disappeared o the radar."
. ' '. . ."Did they land? I aslted.
, _- ' Well, laeltson replied, "we had I
' --_' plane In the air that was on the site and
_saw.-the lights below; it was s elear night,
and when the lights talent out, eteryhodyI-e a
_ ' ' ute eante dttwrt to'_ltItl to I50 feet, the
pilot eouldnt see anything. ' '
- .. -. What was there? lasted.
- ' "'l'heonly thing that wastherewasa
I .' "missile silo, Jaelison said. - -
. ~ . - _ Aha! I t_he~ught-Ilse ttltitrsate cover!
' Use I revamped missile site as I landing-
, __ supply z_one for rnute eopters!Jhere had
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_ . °Phovered shove I Strategic Air Command
_ snissile site south of Jlushnell, Nebraska,
. _ _ ithen had disappeared into Colorado.
'1 The only problem twith missile installa-
itions as landing zones is their size. Ae- = -. thr.92ttght_ that they.'d htltded. Il'ul wheit the.
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|hat'hed-ts-if»: fence ant! Ire Ipprrtairrtately
140' I 4-0. There ls a ttttsail shack on each
trite and then. there'a_.the aealed'.ntis92ile.
isilo itself. a-liieh is about I2 teet in
~diatn'e-ter with about I tout and I halt
zahotsing ahuve die ground._.lt would heiiieiilt to hide three helicopters in suett
II small spaee, unless lIhete,tias_aarne sort
.'~ot' eatttotI|l'l_a;ed hunter nearby. I would
ts6'|'tied'th:af th'e'elEe1I'6'nie' seam I11!
iIairiy intense near I nuke site. but-earl
:-ll _h_e_, that __Unitt:d States nttclartr-__'.'-1 0*: twrtit bit-1'kiI=s time an-1 that-.gird-.-."te=r.-1éf'.-i=;r-as ..'~==1-'--e.ilatneheo tnees atop our missile-silo;_t~at._-linear» Jrquon. the aite3,Im_tt-et-Sterlrng In a remote area ealled hintney
Canyon. 'llterea alwulutely nothing up
there. The lltilttals were ltttttilated on I
big ranch. and just out of curiosity, the
aherili took I Geiger counter along and
got a reading on both animals around the
"head and anus-but not o_n_the test of
their .hu.lii.a._"_.Thete have been repur-t_s at
radioactivity It I site H
Wyoming also. ".
The thought that radio-ttet-ive-rnutant
bacteria, or perhaps; I haeteria radioac-
tive-rnaterial rniekey, are he-in; slipped to
lnirnals eattte_s-the mind to go ll-yi-;yi!ll -
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' I973, when an ttniderntihed he-Tie ter had * -it Colorado Springs who began Incl-
htg into the snutilatiortsin Itlay I915,
takes the laaeteriologgieal-research theory
very seriotnty. For I numher"ol years,
Brianne was an employee of one at the
clandestine inteIliger1|ee_ services; wass0tion'erl in Europe sis in a's|:ee_ial-'
lat in Russian allairss; later. In the early
Sixties, he-was_ hasedl [or I short titne.ln
Washington. with the olee oi
Sicretiry -or Defense. "Brianne-its as-
- cured nse'that he has no ettrrent ebnnet:-
tion with the Ag».-ne;y_: in, Iaet. he seerns.
D have kitted the ever-groisio mter.
enem lead hitn to su1ipes_.-tthat the recent
mutilation; are really the york fttllte _ 5."°_"m*_ u""_.,"* ail.r_etear_e_t.e_n,. tn t.9§t;£ria.aite elaitt--in ..%=.F'.'.'?_ fl!_'ri=!'!!-&¬ "'_~"'. "'~","*~bathed that secret lrt=teart:h'_'Flh . . _ _ . _ §.- _ . - -' ¢Ot't:lt£ted' -the u.s. -' -.115 '*==t>w-.I1i='y-,i=t|aIIv_92vrl=&..ta= =-_ ._ ltaretsesf _ -;- 3 J . _ haeteriar sa!'s:_"'.|'|'Ir-I'F_92:t.I:::¢¢l-i»!'t$ .:!I'b°I=lt>rr °°'"'."5°"_-r |".¢I.l oeer.lstinna eonslstaol selentistalai am;
red lit l970_when the Niacin hart Mt
haeterinlpgieal-warfare research went inzai
¢|l'9=li.l»°trhW. the story
apostles of lernt jive suhsequearly uh»
tained clandestine undin; Irons the Gm-..
ern_mettt. :Ihe|e has also heat tpeetllatiortthat I private eolpt-ratittwstef-ped Its-F»
Iutttl the research, perhaps ln anticipation:
of the day when Ilhe GO92'¢llttI92el'.l ban
wotddl:ed_ropped.__ ,1 '92-. =.; ' _
One ot the rim ponailsties'i tlt.sr..
.wl_tils onee sugpnteqtly targeted against;
On'ent_al_s'., research any now-'tv:
Illlted _i.di=Ile:ent lsurnan ,target.._ Q w Q _ -ait ' v , II: an ; '3" ,.- 0 ' '. ".:t*,' ' :".92_.§ :.'d],_ _'";l _.92 '-s'_:~". _-p-3!" 3.. __ ' _ 1118' l92lUl1LATliDN htY..?§=IRY Crm it be Ilia; the Unit?! S!at$.Tin.rtelear-{ecttrlry grrletl; bieitkirtgf; - ' _ v_i'r and that t;|-eirdot nre free Jo perform drorilii-rg rinreneo jute-e.i'_qrap our _ml:.t'i!e-.rllq linrelier?
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_euqnqq-i~r_sr_t angle; lIlti|llit'l':5{tVdlli--' .-gatora that th'e'tnut:oua sne'rnl92ra'ries of :
cow's eye posstns ptogterties similar to the
Iueous membranes 0! I particular nee.
and that the eow, therefore. ls I perfect
subjeetortwhiehuiserttheedaeuolpJtaeteriologieal agent. _ . . . ;-...ltalt_uItt;dedtb|r| 't Ipadded wal_ of with
R905" Iill .I~lendr'i: of RTVX-TV in
_ §I.ll 1;s_se'ctry._h¢w-e-é, I times ta.-r.
'dttsirt'|'lhe Sixties, llllte lIIryt'hay;.Pro92ii:;Uri-.~_und did port on an anti-Oriental
gents or toxin: the allttll had heen sent I-a
;;D_ugaay|'|rt:surna't5ly fruits Fort Detrlea
of patriotic-hut-critiettl lortoerernuyaea .
of Ootemment inielilipettee agencies. af ,--- Sotneof Elhnhe-'I'Go92 Ofllfl ..rhsit.Io=e¢!_92'q~IIwtvls-. 92t- ---M -s-ts-_ot' the £dgeirood._A_tgsettal -tthe Llarylat-t_d'heater of such reteanem-ashere seieittin _
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sai_n9r tttedia I,-pp _o92ve_r_ alleged Soviet
ti-'iolaliot-ta ol the United Nations germ-
srarfare hart. lack Anderson wrote I
etslurnn in which he tieeused the Soviets
er! etttttinuinf gem-warfare research.
tt'hile_stating that_the.lU.$ js taepjny itsDefense Robert] hllehlatnara. At the
, tirne. I_.taorked for in-= _s¢qe;.-.;;-js e'trie_e,-_-_ '
_:so it's |:retty_a'elt_attl:|stInriated that they '
-did hateatneetingintegarftosesne-rypeolbaeteria. - _ ' _pity tn1ee'ted_ranget|ttia|tal_s. ,. ' -
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_ rancher; are among the most palrialii: of
_- Americans, why not §usI land them
.1 ' cheeks and all them u: uh: CIA mm
I eoupie oi ii-.-ii cutie-aaaiaa
city, you know--and to please leave the=- gm unlocked and to keep quiet about ll?
;. Down in Nan Vim. New Mexico, In:
_31-mung, Kitty Canunact operates 0
' land: ulrh her hmband in In ire: that
- Im been hard-hi: sin: mum and copier:
-.. u92devcaUFOa.Mn.Cemme:kIus
-. lnveuigaaei the mules lee l local neu-
per. In Opil¢_0f the welrdgea and III-
__ _ due IlrQIe.- 'l!_ _thia_is_ Gjmrnnnent
ll inimepeopie
informed. To any that there are ezper
_= ' ¢1|1sif92ed'u-6:116 aefminy Il!li<|$'tI ease.
' -Alnl.:t!heumetime.!une:icarucoul¢
he pleased. mud and nppreeialive of
he eaJea92-or. We. the people. are called
=1-_ caloproviqehxumryaadloprovide"- pumgrnjaghthnniunlype
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Ian he uwenhdte kept ia. e-med ebgqg.
9&3: aha eis lg
_Ap|-atenlly apt. Fim 9! Ill. lb: gctiv
_ He: of 1 rope grclip of cbopoplths win
_" dtly 1' freuden|iaI'cn!er_u:uId- well he»
- came I but cleelion-year campaign but
cunt}! when aailou-nllislnlst the
Govunmgal liter yum Q! Wale:-gle._ lg , l,'.l.A nvehom. eorruptiom cl nwhu as-.
3;,-"' Seeondl;-,1l'l:e:ei: I good cl-.auce_ u!
1,54, lune g{£!U'-.¢.l'=*'~I1'§Y1=n. .vIuge92g: mgr'_ ca_den|ials,'ue_ inane. 'l"heY my have-:_,|:ne of iieadgh_--j:_. Qiain bl: im qia :I't'|I92-ltlliq'|l ':.-:;u-?'s.1:~.¢m-P-She;-¢_-gm-" Saarenu: ue
-' _'|:e ufm; [or m._Youloak qt pbalus of.
dine smooch 92'r4_-per!u::- 'ehop-up-pa:-_»
J as-as-am eircies. accuioully sporting
3-I a aw-loathed edge, _eI:.'cn:! you unn-
__i{|.I92eyerenu:rivin ea _odu:eneme-£1 9! _i::f!i|a:-g-i:ud'u§t|'!:l=£'rre'4l_i:z no!!-
..- 9-1.9!: @!a.=!92_.lL ¢.;e.-A-$.22, £9: L1-
l!_|e we-week-old all k.illed_neat
3. Colorado, h _I
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am, _.|he_unnerI|I'hlIoH!I$
an-abdllneenomaauuaape
.. ollhemutiluon
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1' It! It tr J tried to ito his cor"-sfe-1--. claims, 15 tttttsl'ed_Pt.'01f_r stood across the higlm-o! wt oc e rt; on _ _ _p . p FL?
mere [cw footprietu. No one ma taught.
There ma I particularly Interesting
can to itpueite Gout-try, itrizona, 92vitcte
lnutiteted eairnelt were found to have
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ahctil! Art lee and asked him about this
report. "'_Ihere ttere three J the.-.1 that
itati the burn. on the inside oi the right
ltind_qu.ttter, about halfway up the ham.
he said. Tho livestock investigator ot-I of
Phoenix wrote a_letter to the local new
paper here. Lee tqldloe. ant! raid th-It
ne-se'i-e iii foIi{t_ii6i-t"i%iiii|' estee-ta.
Iattaoeredltimartdlvatatverynicc
IUI-ltai it. '52.. .....;a I I.-'-: :.::: ,'?""!t":'
ore not predator-ravaged carcasses.
;-.lrt Montana. -the mutilation: began
er-ea-.d low 3925. :::"- by "..!eee.-ttl.~er,
number of eereataet found urea elote the
._to_ IN. They were denitely burnatt
- t!-r-92l.-.a'eoqtit_in| to-Cabtain Wlgednzof Cascade County. Wolverwtt has etud-
_h_d the trtutitatiour nationwide {ll
,'-_-'- tioned eirlicr, he vvettt to}-larion Federal
Yet-titent.i:i'y to givc'a-polygraph, ekant-'_ZI'ith~tbe happening; own I118. it
Itatiort to A. Kenneth Bpnltstott!, and he
toldrneeboutemutilotiort ease that
_be|:'unod "I_eaily I975, in ohic-h the
.' animal had been mutilated with art in-
Iftlaertt that eiutet a no-toothed out.
._-Jfle rhatmr iypinkitte glgeap. _92_Ȥjqlvet-togelaolud aeae irtyolvini btirnr. "92VE
baveooetabreporttttarcameioooawe ::_ .":r-:..': =1 2-..-
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~_ -= = ;4tt.»;=_-$2.14 !e'str.gt!urtti! arot1,r_td'!'lt.-1.n.l:t_gtv-
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nH3; the§' darted up again ittglrly I976.
In October end Novet-nber. there eere. = '5" etutilatiotia in ttemtu.-u Ittiuouri. the
tau hear! Oetoberandoon- -_ tesbegart y' tittuediooeveraleotmtieaiotobeoernber
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ported it_t Harocy'County., Oregon, at the':'t " '-ertd-oI'_tti'e uioutterh,-in tl;e'region that
-ltordert Nevada iothe toutttti-'ctl.ern part
ol'the late. There were I outttber oi
ar:utetiaW'ueo|uioioOctobert91$.otte
ol which iavolved animate belonging to
liebattl Ioottt. If Eettrnan. loom
Olti-ttk|II|atteQttle...ItetekilIederit!92
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aepomdoqqctotter t1tt_t.. _
'ln92Vyotniog. begint-ting lo September.
Iteteiraetttathdiotettieotbclieoptera,.'lJFOe and a btolroutilatal cattle; there
incident itwettort County-o_o
__ Oetoberith,erberenl$0-pttrtdllere~
I92I I . - .i I ' ..Q.l u 'W -5. I ' Q" ' wI5 - 0loedoowereaearvedupartdetteteaitr
tide its Ht-tear lank epprently eltavetlI
I ' " "9 The lliltvouker Iolrli:pmper UFO oppc:trar|ee,- there _er:a o
bunch ot ':tnpt_et'iottl !ellovr__ em-lore
about two tout all tttameter. mat were
located Irortt ten to I00 yards Itottt
lherttule lite. _ '
In Idaho that Se|itetttl>ct', a lorri-
service f"9292!92!t92}'e¢ l't92otlt'.'t| acveral peranttt
in 5000: * '-d biaeiz rates v-eitiag down ¬o'-c
Creek in Blaine County; the neat day,
aeveral dead cattle were found, but the
hooded hiltcredetpite In Interttive
,acarch--g-ere never {outu flea. in
at-there :4-et-.= er. %'.¢-er 9:!-. e etc:-.
waa driving-his jeep elortg U.S- 95 at
_t-'~_-*'3_°fO em. vvltem lte elailllt. 18
trtetted people ottltttl heroes the ttt|,rt92-my
urithjocledarmaandtriedtottopltia
eer;!!~e met! get etlrey. but lite egir! 9!
Iefrot did ant. The Terort Voffey Netti.o! Brigg; Idaho. for
to. whit» "tit wmiet nt = mt3=-emhtt.§|e=ct'ee eitre'jIoti'k'rto#lt'ttere
your children are et night ond_espwia_lly
-Halloween night. On Hullugleert-ttidtl.
oistitd be odviuble to It-"Ne the'yo't_toiei"-
ehildrett borne before dark and the older,
ooea home immediately gfter _th: Iootbttllfame scheduled orithat n'tg.ht."= .- '
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Irallted alonfa lcooe for lbout a lu-I
tttile to the road. grllcre prertnnabty they
v-are iiclted iii. he? |-om .eIIertt:" T"2"i
aearclted the entire area._but tout: rt:
lurthereluee- - = '-' "-?- '.~
It vvat strictly by that iledellzo
happened to.be in the vietttity the fellow-
l-- -l'l.an-anon Fl llnbamcll Qrala-.92I-.-tl. IIIUIIIIUIII II 1.0"--I 'I92IIUUlIid
drove by end aeoogniaed _ny ea."
l~Iedeliuetoldtt92e.I_-tevveuttotheaxe
where the heiler Iey led performed a
leld autopsy; he tlteo ptepltttl areparz
e! M. !._-dirt; Eee
alteri; Reading the Hedeliua report. oee
nd: that the uual things bad bee: -0-:00:-1.:-I. . -
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etrttartdeulyingon tltegroundttnttgthe three-month-old fetus. which hJTt92e,'='
removed; the tip of the heifc-t'a ti; -..
elao removed. Iutt att average attic-
---tttut auu<uIe._ar_~tI 4¢ttMf.=e=heifer? It-was b diae:'tse_ot the Ctottri.-1.1.
l'arnity," 1-ledeliue told me. "When I e.:'
d92_e §ut_o;t§y. it was erparent that the La-
'¢aii vtfet l_it.t'ert'1e92yi1t>§aliee¢'itt the .'It=.-:-_
m area about the_aiae_oI a°toaeb.rll."
itight. afterthe autopty, Hedcit-5
.15-auto» that eotrtiooe trad irtjeeteni a t_e;t.:.
.'0t' I diaean into the hi-i-fer vrla brood-:;'.:
am diaeoteretl in ltttve inc the »t_:=a t_tatt-1at§'ee'u;.a1r.'a-11 ttéwtt -:
-'§i¢s55rr~'téitt't'eee tun tn» the-tint;-but-f.Cl=lt92t1 .~,-3,weather -arrived in the mt. Police -used 'nked' the following queauoo:"'a92od'F.;-
-eh: usual. road:-Amt-..' radio and _ai:-crate do '2-ti: eetimet --_,,,_,-*..-.-.e:
euctttotta ottjovealieetiontto on _pra_lt,:_"'- beetetia?] ljedeiitit it-|met_ed:.ft-'e.'e
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em Dr. Ilohert 1|-ledetius. a veterinary=~~h.--- 'i- fgghmnmwmmoqmmmoe
,1 ha_ve_ been a_ble to_deter- hfeeted aotrnal. However, it-this "ea:v U5 Goterrtntcnt ttlotef ' !- I13 nlrivnt-hf ¥t!t_l=!'-re; 1: ' '- ~-. -- '--- '1 -.
tcty that atnutttated auipuf 'ay te_eaa,|>io-r'u§oted,'at-gdlbehte :.-t;
tbebacteria Iretemjocted intotht heir:
Jo one ofaeventotboeqttent eoa92e:..-utediealolftcer for u-e'u.s'. Degtattitnertt I-ledeliua. reutea Bin; .==.~=
Iledeliu; ia-one of a_:I'ottp ol about tso
ht;-hit trained irttltvttlttolt who acne Io
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leeoitte foreigt-ertirttal diaeaaea out oi the
Uttitod'States. I-ledeliu»' mama ease
hvolved I pregrtattt heifer that trrat dia-
ootered ittat bclore emberof Aericultute. who mu in via. Dr. the erattnirtgte tepdr'tedl;' mt-|===..=.
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1 order iltirf local! law-ertforrcntfrttr oiciqls; :!my,na»: §b_¢¢~l; 0| qr;-ll; fgyyg, -=v_92=-1hj~_- 5- -_ -." ?~. Q o - I, .0i +4. _ "lI-tanl jlive in the open alr. Throttglr her sloth
or a dt-liberate botelh-up. |'|t-Jclitrs tissue
agtmples tr-ere etpot-ted lu oxygen by others
In the lsb and tltcrclure the inoculation
tests tterc useless.!
when I talked tot him, Hedelius stood
rmly behind his l_ndings. "lnt cure
their ahoeier did this, shot the animal
Iith a dart gun. and that he used either
aculureoltltobucteriaoradoeaol
t._he tnsin produced lby the bacteria.
- - .-"D_o'you'thinlt." t asked. lllli there's
some sort ol research goingon?" _ Z -
Yeah. I think so. And jtist why ifs
.bein; done is the question. .
-I-::. l'lcdt'|it.rs.t|tatlc tlrtiny uti=n=eum.'--
-lions titlative lo thtt else. For inst'anee:'
qhert asked huttr trasy it would be to
obtain these bacteria or ltlsitts, ltc re-
plied: It's very easy. There are perhaps
'o couple of lturtdlred biological-supply
M illlhé I o'e
~bt.'r$ er|t.l-:|trop:'gaIeI_--the cttltt|Ie.'J_tyhlch.
product.-s tosins retry easily." Would it
take great cu-ertiu.-Ito isplate the poisons?
Rot tully. 'Acttntllly§_any-body wt» has-the it basic cai.trte'litt eaaenetegyeotuu
do it. I-te not that complicated.
On the ot.92-r hand. Hedelius attested
It: post-ilultty th.tt1tl: ahole c'aa'c alightO.-
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For its-tutor. litre was a cornpls-te h.-5'
ltocttochl ot_th.r lteiler he autopsied. I-le
apccttlutcs th-rt. fur tturtse reason, the Isu-
a[ter- they.die. cspc:=ia_lly.io' the hot. om; .._.
-.~' at '21 i|-iypre-seed II-the absoltltc_1aolt'o{ _
.,_°.. _l_Ilo:ttirig-on.l-I'va:trtR-ealled.it1 on
etttttl the late altetotton. The carcass was
as-_:. . - etaotttet [teth__ettitpt.tld be. .
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o_attt like _a» cow, Cori-s al_92t'ays
blsvo a oi-rtaln atnotint ol'ps. lut'Mteh
"I op.-rtetl dtis aoiteol irp, ti: ittostinai
ttttel and the rtuttco were absolutely
empty an-I completely devoid ol pa. I
bail urvcrsren anything like it. Even when
a our b tlaugbteretl at a pct-ill: Pill"-
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intritcrlistelyellerara-rd.'Andaoleanonly '
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Ianimals as instant bacteria or rial
larttts. lteruing 5; lilctslI'l scary buult on
chemical and ltttlltttgltiill snttll, one en--
cottnlcrs something; the U. S. devclopedl
called mortality-enhancing lac-tort:
known, naturally. tts hll-IF»; these agenttl
-are added to ordinary biologieols so la to
greatly speed up lht: till time of a disease.
Perhaps lite ttttttictt are ttsittg HEB let
produce quick de.tt:lt_ or a .,.-5.1. rush oi
production of auntething they want an
obllect. One lcscurcltet, in act. does.
cleirn that the tttutilutors have got their
disease death time down to I3 t|tiautes.,_
There are ebb reports that the gla'ntla~
that are removed lirunt the ortitttals, IoW7_ 7 e -- "0-l -'
my net check or seareh'thetu-itch he
W WM qt r litdlwtr Ktitlcnt. rt theme
ls a trrcclt. only Gvovemrnent peoltlg ma
curnine the vrecltage. 'l'ltercf_o|e,' {Q3191
Government or military equiyttttent- £15.
way can or truelts--can travel its t:-2.;
secrecy anytthere in the United States.
. Etienne ts stiqwiest about t-that v-2!
occur when iottter ltutilator It ac-t'u:.F-'
caught carving a lterelortl in snrue t-:..
oouttty."l think tlteonlylrcrsonni-it
can break lotttelltiipg like this." Frtaane
says. is seqteone with ltngalerlge ol the
allairs ct alarge organization and it! ti;-is
K produces its particular type of oyt.-:1»wt it 92ht1itr>".';¢'>c~i-It'3_il'!=Ill.'!t>t.-4'ttr.tl92e:'- *2-l ' ~~':"_' "W =. ~'~"P"'¥ '*"='-5"
kinds ol things that lttani-tle rercarcltcrt
might t._-tke, in order to the spread
oi chcrnicol or biological agents. _ - _
stow to sates: tt-te case
Whoever breaks this case oould eollet:
moot QQQJQQI-"1Ilt"t_¬lE,tOI]|e~Qpi_'ogiii .
mate total ot rewards now being otlere-l
by various ,s_tote-cattle usociations, gov-
,ernors. stettspapers. etc. P_n'92'atr. inveati-~ -
'gitor'Eriartne no -|pt'e-tented a-tut
tornelobeagnodapproaehtocracking
Isis case. his-cJ on lltis long ettperiettce in
III intelligence hi-Id: Anal!: the nsuitiv
ht't'attist.-L.-t' .'lc loetits-Gtetl..'l _ titers rto
Iuat '92ertt.ttlett-ttt.aL92al' die they y. _ 9 Jlntgr 7"?-~v-lsy.~'-hetrtInqGl'crurute.thJwuk- -
tors _sy't-tent oI__ Ilthlhld cover-up oraln u I U I
.s=='rth-.3é .thi=a_'=:t iioIi_5c'iay, the U-1 overirghts, TM U-I. ights
could have been ttncovered,'by ittvtst_ip§mg 'h x I ° M." }mHg.-g-92.":.o_ . P° Ihrwtrh. ' _ qr» __
dvilian-ba_sed ;uppJ|y_-ont.l-lopsucal cons-
_panies: eten requisition or order toms
_lteld clog igto thr: natureolthecntebpriae iigolt-ed. In the sttutilation 58¢.
£ri:trutepottstsoot.orteeouldchecktteli-mgtteqltael deiivery'_ and repairsordered tor supply vehic ; one ootlld
look [or tlttltattil suns. pttrh.-up with Fed-~
qéal stair aliicsl. tt4tich,t'.ttay-appear to -
ltave brokendownbtytl92esideolthee6ad.'
' It turns out that the my tltal Iyine,
aeniecs transport helicopters--Ior oil--
544 st-orb. lorcsantpleistocarrythettt
tn his vehicle I=.92_»=.t.I'i1tr-;-e Io
L §@Ul'l'll-52!:-with a slight baciqground tn law enlct-:.:. y
tttent or intelligence ls going to be at :
todolt.lIhedo¢>.reat:haguy.ort-: -
IWI. the cttlprife boctpgtrttd h gob}!U be covered It let! as possible: And ""2 -
sterile:-;e:n:*t;!;= PI¢il"ted.I'ltcprose-.taupe _t=.. qt merits gr t=~=-tittis'dt':r1tIc!aarior§lei§:e1tha"t? _" ' .
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other inst.-stigit_tors,, the obt-inue oei,-;,';..''99?! F I5"!-i_lf*'92'll92lL '3'-Iletter l§t;i:_'f_.
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patriots erased trtottt over Nittgrfs =-
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United S tates Senate
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Dear Senator Schmitt:
As I told you over the telephone yesterday, I
have asked Philip Heymann, head of
to look into our jurisdiction overthe Criminal Division,
the cattle mutilation
problem with which you are concerned. We will be in
touch with you at an early date.
T wnglnh I111! §I'!-|'Q-J. ;_Q= 5- 3;;-I 92_5; ,;92,, §,,.92" J.-92-92 92-92.-5 J-we-go
existence of one of the strangest phenomenon: _
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'CORRE'SPONDENCE - SJ;-INATOR SCHMITT _. - . viwé J'u1.Y_1s, 197: LIVESTOCK I-1U'1ILATIONS! ' D
MARTIN E. VIGIL, DIRECTOR '
CAPTAIN _CHARL_I'f. P. ANAYA. *T"5"T°" or
New Mexico State Police . MAJOR M. S: cunvetEspanola, New Mexico-P _ 00.
Dear Captain: ' ' i?
of correspondence from the HonorablefState Senator, and Mr. Manuel S. Gomez,
regarding livestock mutilations in - .
for the past two years. "we are in receipt
Harrison Schmitt,
Dulce, New Mexico
Rio Arriba County
Kindly instruct Officer Gabe Valdez to submit copies ofall his reports concerning this matter to this office;in order that we may'forward them to Senator Schmitt's
office. '
Very truly yours, _
MARTIN E. VIGIL, DIRECTOR
W. J.. LI.-OCK, CHIEF "
Unifo ed Bureau »
State Police Division .Criminal Justice Department ,
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The Honorable Harrison Schmitt, State Senator '
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On December 29, 1978, John Ryan,
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oa11n OLA racarinc +hp q+a+ns 0F_-.-_ -_--- -._-as----_--3 ---- _-----_ -_
this matter. OLA only received this
correspondence yesterday but we have
learned that the Senator has personally
discussed this matter with the Attorney
General. The AG agreed to have someone
in the Criminal Division look into this
matter to determine whether or not '
there is any statutory basis for
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,-,. ,1 -_ s 'so often happens with
crime, it's a question of
' ._ viewpoint, really. Given
_: the rate of human slaugh-
& I -"-*- ter in any large American
city, it might not seem too important
that between April and September of
this year 129 cattle were mutilated in
the state of Colorado. As a matter of
fact, in 1974, there were about 3,750.-
000 cattle grazing in Colorado and
around 37,000 of these died of natu-
ral causes, so we are not talking
about an event of prime importance
to the ranching business.
But no rancher in Colorado is tak-
ing this comfortable view of the mat-
ter. What the ranchers dislike is the
idea of driving across their pastures
and nding. as one did last August,
a dead bull with its pepis, rectum,
testicles, tongue and an eye excised
with surgical deitness and absolutely
no trace visible of the surgeon or
surgeons involved. . '
Over the past couple of years, hun-
dreds of such mutilation" have oc-
curred in Colorado, Minnesota, Ne-
braska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming,
South Dakota, Montana, New Mexico
and Texas. In fact, if you follow this
kind of thing. You may have noticed
the odd item in the newspapers about
the cattle-cutting craze. I'd seen such
items myself but not taken too much
of an interest till my good friend Ed
Sanders told me last fall that some
anonymous person in Sacramento
had sent him a cow's tongue in the
mail. Now, Sanders is the author of
The Family, s ne and eerie book
about the Manson group. Like my-
self, he had taken only s passing in-
terest in cattle mutilations. The ar-
rival in June of what he likes to call
the linguo bovine ea-ciao, packed in s
shoe box, at the oflice of his literary
agent escalated his attention remark-
ably. In June, you may remember,__ D U!
capitation of a goat in Topanga Can- 92
yon. Five years later the question l
seemed to be whether excised animal
p'a'rts had, so to speak, become part l
of the currency of satanic groups; l
whether a sliced cowis tongue was ,
now an essential part of the ritual-
ist's working equipment. 1
So far, after some investigation,
Sanders has found nothing to con-
nect the tongue from Sacramento é
with the mutilation: in the Midwest.
But he did, in the course of a drive
across the country, nd himself stand-
ing in the oice ofthe sheriff of
Elbert County, Colorado, looking at a
Polaroid photograph. It showed a
cow with its udder bag and rectum
removed. The cow had been pregnant
and the photograph also showed s
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head, which the mutilators had cut
and pulled out of its mothers uterus. 92
The calfs tongue had been cut out. ».
As Sanders later remarked to me. he
could understand why the ranchers
were getting upset. ' l
The mutilation case histories make v
for depressing reading. In Minne- ;;
sota, in the fall of 1974, a young cow l
was found dead with its sexual or-
gans,oneearandtheudderremoved.
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land with the tip of its nose, its
tongue. left ear, udder and vagina all
removed with a knife. And on and
on, from Texas to Colorado to Mon-
tana. Behind them the mutilators al-
a-ays leave county sheriffs and.!!et-
erinarians saying they have never
seen anything like it before, and local
authorities on black ritual discours-
ing on the importance of always
using fresh warm blood, if drinking
the stuff is called for.
A survey of newsclips and other
literature on cattle mutilation seems
to indicate that the whole business
started with the mysterious death of
Snippy. Snippy wm s horse whose
mutilated body was found on a ranch
near --Alamosa, Colorado, eight years
ago. Snippys throat had been cut and
esh from the head and neck re-
moved. Also removed were Snippys
brain and stomach. Snippys owner
was convinced that his horse had
been "zapped by a flying saucer."
Snippys bones may still be viewed in
the museum at Adams State College
in Alamusa.
U.F.0.'s are still being blamed for
the cattle mutilations. Some students
of the craze simply see no other ex-
planation. Carl Whiteside, of the
Colorado Bureau of Investigation,
evidently felt it necessary to contest
this hypothesis, since he told me seri-
ously, We do not feel these people
have any magical quality that puts
them in the realm of the supernatural
or some alien planet civilization.
The occupants of U.F.O.'s have not
so far appeared to refute slanderous
allegations about their attitude
toward terrestrial livestock. People
associated with occult groups, on the
other hand, have been vehemently
trying to distance themselves from
the unknown slicers. Back at the
start of the year, after twenty-three
mutilations in Texas, a self-professed
witch in Dallas told a local reporter
she thought they were the work of
a satanist group from Fort Worth."
These Texas cattle had been drained
of their blood, which the witch
thought was consonant with satanic
addiction to blood. They give.witch-
craft a bad name, she added.
A writer in Gnostico. was even
more alarmed. "Despite the obvious
iiloglcality of it, said Isaac Bone-
wits, a former member of the Church
of Satan, "the favorite theory right,
now among state and federal investi-
gators is that occultists of some sort
are involved. This of course is sheer
scapegoating, since only a rank ama-
teur would believe it possible to get
usable psychic energy out of such
mutilations, and a rank amateur
would not be able to a! levitate so"
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without leaving evidence of a pump-
ing machine, c! make the neat sur-
gical incisions that were used to re-
move organs and extremities, or d!
teleport so as to be able to perform
two such operations on the same
night, hundreds of miles apart."
It would be interesting to know
what Bonewits would consider the
talents of a professional; but he was
right in thinking that at one point
federal and state investigators did
think that occultists were involved.
For a time. indeed, they thought a
solution to the great mutilation wave
was at hand.
Early in 1'.!'i4, e student at Kilgore
Junior College in Texas wrote a
paper on 'fThe Sons of Satan," which
contained detailed descriptions of
how this group would mutilate cattle
between midnight and sunrise. The
ritual would be completed just as
sunlight started to lter down on the
animal through the branches of a
tree. In the absence of trees, the
adept: would hold a branch over the
beast and proceed as usual with thissubstitute.! '
The teacher at Kilgore Junior Col- -
lege was sufliciently revolted by the
theme's details to destroy it forth-
with. The student said he had heard
the story from a friend familiar with
the satanlsts. An English professor
from Pennsylvania told John lllalzeig
of the Fort Wort].-. Star-Telegram
that he was familiar with the Sons
of Satan group. had some of its morn-
bers in his class, and had seen some
girls who'd cut o' their ngers and
pieces of their ears and things like
that." Their primary thrill, he
added, was to eat their own flesh.
All this information was passed on
to Don Flickinger, an Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearms agent in Minne-
apolis. Early this year Flickinger be-
came the main federal investigator
of the mutilation phenomenon, for
somewhat bizarre reasons. Cattle. _ .v,
mutilation is not, as a spokesman in I
the Justice Department stiffly in- I
formed me. a federal offense. Flick-l
inger became involved because three
prisoners in federal institutions sud- 3
denly wrote to various authorities
announcing that not only did they
know the satanic cult practicing the 3
mutilations, but that this same group i
had compiled a "death list" of in-l
tended assassination victims. Among
the alleged targets were Senator Hu-
bert Humphrey and a federal judge
ip Minneapolis. '~_ .
The U.S. attorney in Minneapolis,
Robert Renner, put A.T.F.s Flick-
inger on the case because, as he put
it to me, "We thought it was the only
agency freewheeling enough really to
do something." The informants con- l
tinned to pour out their stories:
small city near the Gulf Coast would
have its water deliberately poisoned; .
two people in another Texas town;
would suffer dismemberrnent in the
near future. Just enough of the in-Q
formants' stories checked out to cause t
Elickinger and investigators in sev-
eral states to continue the hunt for
the allegedly .four-hundred-strong
band of rich cattle-mutilating satan-
ists. Reputed leaders of the group in
Tegcas were polygraphed. All survived
such examinations. One of the claims
was that the group was escalating
from animal to human mutilations
and police earnestly scanned all cases
of ritualistic murders that occurred.
Fliclcinger himself was threatened
and his door claubed with blood. -
Sometime in the summer of this
year the federal investigation came
to an abrupt end. All that a person
in the Justice Department associated
with the case would tell me was, We
were looking into alleged threats to
elected ofticials from the same type
of people involved in cattle mutila-
tions and we were unable to come up
with anything at all. This was not
particularly illuminating, but John
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Oscar Price died with o hunk of steak in his rhroot,
dining among friends at Top of 21, o restaurant '-,
for people on top of it off. His friend: thought '
him Ialighing, then mildly mied, red-faced -
or his wife, who soiled her potato and missed his going.I.0
Where she lives new on top of o hill!,
she wonders about choking. This is on days
when rocks shift place and daisies are spineless
with west wind or their bucks. She watches birds,
how ycarchers take load and orelgone.
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and ying. The thing obou: choking, too.
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gro-in had also been receiving letters
from two of the informants--com
victed armed robbers in the Marion
federal prisonand was able to con-
clude that the -federal investigators
had. become convinced that the in-
formants were putting out a lot of
bogus information in an attempt to
get moved to prisons from which it
would be easier for them to escape.
This view was strengthened by the
fact that all three informants had in-
deed made escape attempts.
Thus ended federal involvement in
the investigation of cattle mutila-
tions and thus also ended the last
convincing series oi leads anyone has
yet come up with. '
, _What are we left with?-In the hun- -
dreds of cases of cattle mutilations,
no one has ever been seen at or near
the scene of the crime. No trace of
the perpetrators-footprints, car
tracks or even evidence of the use of
helicopters-has ever been detected.
Many ranchers believe that heli-
copters have been used, partly be-
cause a large number or sightings oi"
unidentied helicopters have been re-
ported, partly because it seems this
is the only form of transport allow-
ing easy access to remote rangeland.
Some investigators believe that such
furtive use of helicopters would ex-
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See the entire HCA line. including the smart. new. indoor "Sponables" AC only! Sghd St3te']'92/ -plain the large number of U.F.0.
sightings in the affected states. .-
Cynics say that small predators
are responsible for many of the al-
leged mutilations. This may some-
times be the case, but Carl White-
sirle, the Colorado Bureau of Investi-
gation ollicer, told me that out of all
the dead animals sent to the veteri-
nary school at Colorado State Uni-
versity six were fresh enough to be
amenable to autopsy. One had been
the victim of a predator, ve had
denitely been mutilated by humans.
In all cases, he added, the animals
had died of natural causes and the
mutilations had occurred post-mor-
whicn he said produced curious
questions: Are the cattle being
killedand mutilated by the same peo-
ple, or do the mutilators oome upon
them and do the cutting?"
Out of all the investigations only
one clue has emerged. In the late
summer a Colorado rancher found a
blue plastic valise on his land. In it
were a cow's tongue, an ear and n
scalpel.
The day I spoke wiih. Whiteside he
had just returned from a meeting of
threehundred ranchers in Kiowa,
Elbert County. Elbert County suf-
fered sixty-three cases of mutilation
over the summer. Whitesirle said the
ranchers were literally up in
with the same great picture and sound. Now showing at your RCA Dealer. _
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no trace. What we're afraid
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wanders onto a ranch and
thing you know these peopl
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So be careful about road s
time you drive around the 1
states. Ed Sanders, who is a
an, told me that one of thei
driving around mutilation
was seeing trucks trundling
to orthodox slaughter. You
steak for a lifetime and ntil.
titted over the fate of one
Whose organs have been slice
unknown cow molesters. It:
ironic tension between homi
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question of viewpoint. Criml
what you care to see.
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;;|;i||,,t.-_ And sortie of the Stateside fugi-
tive; l|;ttl |grmvn do92vnri|tht paranoid ni-
ter years on the lam. "l low do I know
they won't lock me up and put me back
in the Army?" asked a diehard dcserter
in New York.
Wlren the Clemency Board-lteadcd
hy an outspoken critic of the war, iot-
rnrr New York Sen. Charles Coodell
lu-ttins its worlr, some oi the resistors
fears may be eased. Coodcll's dovish
92-icws will be holstercd by those of other
hoard members, including National Ur-
ban League director Vernon E. Iordan
and the ltev. Theodore llesburglt, res-ident of Notre Dame and a former liead
oi the U.S. Civil lli 'hts Commission.Inc panelists clirarly have
some very diilicult problems _ _-
aln:.1dweigl1ing, for example, _
time served in iailagainst time
owéd lor alternate service, or
hattle honors against time spentP.ilSTEl'tlES: .
The Midnigitt Marauder
Each clay, just hr-lore dusk. ranchers
and iarmllands pile into pickup tmeks
and fan out across the rolling prairie oi
nortlteastern Nebraska. They park mostly
on ridges or hilltops. where they can
scan the pastures and the narrow roads
that wind through them. With rilies and
shotguns leaning against their trucks, the
men watch nervously. smoking cigarettes
and talking with each other over a net-
tvorlr of citizen's-band radios. Some of
the men will stand guard all night, yet
none of them really knows what he is
looking fur. "I've never seen anything
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AWOL. And the board con- -. --' - '1' -tained some hawltish tnemhers . _' ' "ii ' . -'
who might oppose leniency, in- '
cltrdirn: retired Marine Corps.
Gen. Lewis Walt and james
Ma!-e, executive director of
Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Stiil, the Ford plan had the vir-
tue oi all compromises. Said
lh-slmrglr: "As long as Nixon
was in, these guys could rot as
iar as he was concerned. It's
the tlitierence between tm
chance and some chance.
it-EDIANS:
Blazing Saddles
lt didn't look like tnut-l' of a
hnrrh-r crossing. The sign by the
side of the road merely dc-
|n:nnlerl :1 10-cent toll from pars- -?_"I'92''1
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Wing motorists, most oi whom . _
sli-_!n't even stop. But the rnili-
taut Knntenai Indians manning
the roadside picket lines outside
Ilonncrs Ferry, Idaho, weren't
kidding. After years oi fnistra-
tinn trying to deal with fashington, the
6? mernhers oi the Kootcnai tribe linally
lost patience last week and declared war
on the United Statcsby registered mail.
Their challenge _was delivered in o
letter to President Ford demanding a
128.000-acre reservation, plus as mnch.... Q1 0 ...:tl:.... I... r-I-.-.t I-....I |'l._ mum.-=IQ vlinq IIIQIIIUII I92JI lllllall lBII92.l IIIY b92lI'BI II
rnent had paid for in 1962 at the rate oi
36 cents an acre. To hack it up, they
threatened to lax white homeowners
and businesses squatting on their ancient
tribal lands. Idaho's Gov. Cecil Andrus
sent in GD lawmen to keep the highways
clear, hut tensions soon eased. The Bu-
re.nt of Indian Mlairs invited tribal lead-
r.-rs to lvegin negotiations, and the citi-
7.1-ns of Banners Ferry relaxed. The
Indians have told us that they don't want
a war," said one syrnpatlrctic hmal. They
know it's ton|:lI for ti? people to get o re-
action from 92i'ashin;:tnn, D.C." o
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arpotlf: Tribearnon soliciting tolls u
like this," says State. Sen. Inles Bor-
bach, who has represented Knox County
for eighteen years." "Folks are almost
hysterical.
Since last May, more than 100 cattle
have been found dead and grucsomely
mutilated in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa.
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Madison, Neh., a cow was killed with n
lrlnnt instnnnent last Innc and her udder
and sexual organs were cnt o|'l'. Wlren a
veterinarian examined the corpse, he
found that all of the animal's blood had
heen drained. On the nearhy ranch of
92'em Stringliehl, a month-old hull call
was clubbed to death. Its blood was
drained oil, too. and someone cut a
hole in the call s side, removing the
intestines rind coiling them neatly nest
Rumor and anxiety have prodnecd a
host of unpmvcd thr-_ories to explain theJ.rizarre events. hlany pr-rs]-It-_ |m|;,," "mg
Sltll" oi the 92ir.'liIns were hint-t;_ _92.,;5,;.-1,;
that r.lr-voter's oi witt-hcralt rnoy lt;t92't'
done the foul deeds. It ;-mitt} I . ,,,m,._
one setting up a fertility cult oi _92|7|||r-
kind, says llichard Thill, a Genitou-
studies professor at the l.lniver_92'ite oi
l92'tlJla§l< who teaches noncredit w-iteh-
cralt courses, "or it could be someone
putting you on. If they are putting you
on, they are pretty sick. A icw residents
report sighting strange creatures re-
sembling bears and gorillas. and at least
one Ianner claims that a shiny UFO
landed in a eld where a slaughtered
animal was later iound.
ttusttrrs: Still others think the killings
may he the work of marijuana srnu|.'.-
glers, who supposedly use scarchligl|t-equigpecl helicopters to han-est the wild
stan s of pot known to grow in Ne-
h-taska.. A helicopter olten has been seen
lint-ering over the range around the time
oi a mutilation, and some ranchers swear
they have ht-en chased down lonely
roads by choppers. llclicuplers are also
said to have ln:t'n used in cattle rustling,
and some stoeknten think the mstlers
may be eollectintt blood and organs as
lures ior cattle grazirn: on the open
range this iall. I
As the tension rnountetl, law-enlorce-
ment ollicials held statewide r.1n|h.-renr:es
to silt the accounts and to calm the tille-
toting cattlernen. They organized a posse
for a iruitless scan.-h of the area. The plot
this-kt-ned when autopsies were conduct-
ed on some of the dead animals. The
doctors reported that most oi the animals
had died oi natural causes, such as hac-
terial infections and kidney disease, or
from stvallowing nil that had her-n
dropped on the range. Aiterwarrl, the
medical reports r.-nnclnt.led, the ear-
easses were chewed lay predator coy-
otes, wolves, lruzzards, eagles or even
magpics.
Cuts: The esplanatien doesn't suit ev-
eryone. 92.92'hy didn't we notice this sort oi
thing in other years?" asks one skeptic.
Tilt: prfdaltlrs are not wolves," irtisti
Senator Burhach. "Tin-_v are a sern_irlo-
nu.-stieatcd, two-legged animal called
man. Noting that many oi the cuts
seemed to have been done with a blade,
Cord:-n Gruher, an organizer of the pa-
trols, remarked: I've rt to see a coyotewho can chew a straight edge.
Some olhcials are beginning to worry
that the real danger is not some ghostly
hotel-.r-r, hot the keyed-up vigilante:
themselves. After two slugs pierced thecanopy of a utilit!'-mntpaiiy helicopterchec -ing power lines, the Neliraska Na-
tional Guard ordered its helicopter pilots
to cruise cross-country at hitther altitudes
than usual-lzenerall - 2,000 feet insteadof 1,000-to avoid heing fired upon lay
frightened ranch hmnls. "1 would hale
to think what would lrapprn," a Guard
spokesman told hit:92t's92921-:t:I;'s 9292'illiam
Schmidt, ii one oi our pilots was forced
to put iiiiii a disalrlrrl chopper in aEa!-lure at niglit. Stnnt~rnn' n|i_eht get
ilh-d."
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