◆ SpookStack

* # ° @PTIONAL FORM vias +e AU6Y 1878 EDITIC: - _. SEA BPteR 141 on" 101-13.6 ° . “} ‘UNITED STATES GOVERN: .uNT , > Memorandum oe na AY ee Director ; Fy Merck z AS73 To 2 Federal Bureau of Investigation DATE: PBH :ALH:RCA :mac RW) Philip B. # FROM Assistant Attorney General iminal Division SUBJECT: Crime on indian-Reservations; “Mutilation of Animais Attached is a portion of some correspondence ok received from Senator Harrison Schmitt indicating that ™ ° 15 mutilations of animals have occurred in Indian country in New Mexico in the past three years. For \ several years the Criminal Division has been aware of — > thea swheanamananan «af antmalt=a haina shi Taba mare a rm™ hhdS PSU WK CE A MUCLLaTSG in a manner ~ fF 4 ‘yg Wa that could indicate that such acts are performed by ~+ persons as part of a ritual or ceremony. The report that some Of the mutilations have occurred in Indian country * is our first indication that Federal law may have been violated. It is requested that the Federal Bureau of investigation conduct an appropriate investigation of the 15 mutilations and any others that occur in Indian country as a possible crime on an Indian reservation and, furnish the results to the United States Attorney and to_/ the Criminal Division, attention: Roger C. Adams, rE ' General crimes Section. Mr. Adams has additional infor- pe mation which may be of assistance to the FBI concerning previous cattle mutilations over which there was no Federal jurisdiction. | Attachment “ ee a 2s DD |Gy Ode 7 . \~ ENCLOSURE 14 war! 1973