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This FBI Freedom of Information release collects Albuquerque field office reports from July 1970 to May 1971 on Silas Mason Newton, the Buckhorn Mining Company and the Magnetic Research Foundation, which were investigated for interstate transportation of stolen property and confidence games. Agents suspected that Newton was running a salted mining swindle near Silver City, New Mexico, since assays found no mercury or silver in the ore. The file also lists his arrest record. The case was closed after a lender said he had not been swindled.
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## FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
REPORTING OFFICE
ALBUQUERQUE OFFICE OF ORIGIN
ALBUQUERQUE DATE
11/30/70 INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD
7/2/70-11/24/70
TITLE OF CASE
BUCKHORN MINING COMPANY;
MAGNETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION;
SILAS MASON NEWTON; REPORT MADE BY
SA TYPED BY
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CHARACTER OF CASE
ITSP-CONFIDENCE GAME
Report of SA at Albuquerque, dated 7/21/70. Oklahoma City letter to Albuquerque, dated 7/30/70. Albuquerque letter to Los Angeles, dated 9/21/70. Los Angeles letter to Albuquerque, dated 10/12/70.
LEADS;
ALBUQUERQUE DIVISION
AT PINOS ALTOS, NEW MEXICO
ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED NONE ACQUIT-TALS CASE HAS BEEN PENDING OVER ONE YEAR YES NO PENDING PROSECUTION OVER SIX MONTHS YES NO
CONVIC. AUTO FUG FINES SAVINGS RECOVERIES
APPROVED SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW
COPIES MADE
$\textcircled{1}$ - Bureau (87-111909)
$\textcircled{2}$ - Albuquerque (87-7861) 87-111901 REC-43
DEC 4 1970.
Dissemination Record of Attached Report Notations
Agency
Request Recd
Date Fwd.
How Fwd
By 31
A. CO. CONSUMER PRINTING OFFICE 1470 D 175-139 Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.