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UNITED STATES GOVERNL.N! Memorandum Nerch E 1975 Director Federal Bureau of Investigation DATE: PBH:ALH:RCA:mac fBH Philip B. Heymann FROM 'Assistant Attorney General. criminal Division UBIECT: Crime on Indian-Reservations;. EXP. PROE. FEDERAL GUJENMEN Attached is a portion of some correspondence MAR. received from Senator Harrison Schmitt indicating that 15 mutilations of animals have occurred in Indian. 3-9 country in New Mexico in the past three years. For several years the Criminal Division has been aware of. the phenomenon of animals being mutilated in a manner 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,. General crimes Section. Mr. Adams has additional infor- mation which may be of assistance to the FBI concerning. previous cattle mutilations over which there was no Federal jurisdiction.. Attachment 131 14 MAR] ENCLOSURE 1979 QrtS to SHC, AQ