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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U.S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes. Although many of the FBI's functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and NCA; the New Zealand GCSB and the Russian FSB. Unlike the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which has no law enforcement authority and is focused on intelligence collection abroad, the FBI is primarily a domestic agency, maintaining 56 field offices in major cities throughout the United States, and more than 400 resident agencies in smaller cities and areas across the nation. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint, operating 60 Legal Attache (LEGAT) offices and 15 sub-offices in U.S. embassies and consulates across the globe. These foreign offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a limited domestic function; these activities generally require coordination across government agencies. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation, the BOI or BI for short. Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The FBI has a List of the Top 10 criminals. Mission, priorities and budget Mission The mission of the FBI is to "protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States". Priorities Currently, the FBI's top priorities are: Protect the United States from terrorist attacks Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations, espionage, and cyber operations Combat significant cybercriminal activity Combat public corruption at all levels Protect civil rights Combat transnational criminal enterprises Combat major white-collar crime Combat significant violent crime Budget In the fiscal year 2019, the Bureau's total budget was approximately $9.6 billion. In the Authorization and Budget Request to Congress for fiscal year 2021, the FBI asked for $9,800,724,000. Of that money, $9,748,829,000 would be used for Salaries and Expenses (S&E) and $51,895,000 for Construction. The S&E program saw an increase of $199,673,000. History Background In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, providing agencies across the country with information to identify known criminals. The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created a perception that the United States was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, but President Theodore Roosevelt wanted more power to monitor them. The Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the Oregon land fraud scandal at the turn of the 20th century. President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the U.S. Secret Service, for personnel, investigators in particular. On May 27, 1908, Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelt's urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, which would then have its own staff of special agents. Creation of BOI The Bureau of Investigation (BOI) was created on July 26, 1908. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including some veterans of the Secret Service, to work for a new investigative agency. Its first "chief" (the title is now "director") was Stanley Finch. Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureau's first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the "White Slave Traffic Act" or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. Creation of FBI The following year, 1933, the BOI was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition and rechristened the Division of Investigation (DOI); it became an independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover served as FBI director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, and FBI. He was chiefly responsible for creating the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, or the FBI Laboratory, which officially opened in 1932, as part of his work to professionalize investigations by the government. Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure. But as detailed below, his tenure as Bureau director proved to be highly controversial, especially in its later years. After Hoover's death, Congress passed legislation that limited the tenure of future FBI directors to ten years. Early homicide investigations of the new agency included the Osage Indian murders. During the "War on Crime" of the 1930s, FBI agents apprehended or killed a number of notorious criminals who committed kidnappings, bank robberies, and murders throughout the nation, including John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, Kate "Ma" Barker, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Other activities of its early decades focused on the scope and influence of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan, a group with which the FBI was evidenced to be working in the Viola Liuzzo lynching case. Earlier, through the work of Edwin Atherton, the BOI claimed to have successfully apprehended an entire army of Mexican neo-revolutionaries under the leadership of General Enrique Estrada in the mid-1920s, east of San Diego, California. Hoover began using wiretapping in the 1920s during Prohibition to arrest bootleggers. In the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States, in which a bootlegger was caught throu.... Discover the The Federal Bureau Of Investigation popular books. Find the top 100 most popular The Federal Bureau Of Investigation books.
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White
Christopher WhitcombIslamic and Christian fundamentalists unleash a wellcoordinated series of attacks all across the American heartland. Stolen radioactive material, a highlevel spy, a mysterious brea...
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Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects
United States. Federal Bureau of InvestigationReference is made to Bureau Bulletin No. 42, Series 1947, dated July 30, 1947, Section (B), which advises that all reports concerning flying discs should be investigated by field o...
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Labyrinth
Catherine CoulterFrom “one of the bonafide rock stars of the thriller genre” (The Real Book Spy) comes another tour de force in the #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series following agent...
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The Threat
Andrew G. McCabe#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Washington Post Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerOn March 16, 2018, just twentysix hours before his scheduled retirement from the organizat...
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Justice for All
Greg KellyNewsmax TV anchor and WABC Radio host Greg Kelly delivers a stirring defense of American law enforcement and a warning about what happens when they are defunded and derided.As the ...
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Under Pressure
Robert Pobi"Complexly plotted... skillfully drawn." The Wall Street JournalA series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. tu...
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Shadows of the Dead
Spencer KopeThe best tracker in the world, a man with a secret and a special set of skills, must find two nearly untraceable killers before time runs out for their victims, in Spencer Kope's S...
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The Silence of War
Terry McGowanWith a Foreword by Bill O’Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.Terry McGowan...
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Crossfire Hurricane
Josh CampbellCROSSFIRE HURRICANE DELIVERS THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT FROM 2016 TO TODAY, tracing the events that lead this country to a historic impeachment and beyond. “A mustr...
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Whitey on Trial
Margaret McLean & Jon LeibermanAfter sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trialand what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, gove...
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Saving Justice
James ComeyJames Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairnes...
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The Last Honest Man
James Risen & Thomas RisenIn this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigati...
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The Putt at the End of the World
Lee K. Abbott & Dave BarryThe richest man in the world invites a trio of mediocre golfers to play at a secret course in Scotland. The result of their efforts will somehow affect the fate of the world. Can g...
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The John Corey Collection
Nelson DeMilleAn omnibus of three Nelson DeMille novels featuring John Corey, a brilliant NYPD detective who becomes an FBI terrorist hunter.Plum Island Wounded NYPD homicide detective John Cor...
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The Power Couple
Alex BerensonFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep.Rebecca and Brian...
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A Twist of the Knife
Becky MastermanWinner of the Tony Hillerman Fiction Award"A crime novel that transcends the genrea twisting, highstakes story with characters so real and so recognizably human, that it breaks you...
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Deadlock
Catherine CoulterThis “intricate…extravagant thriller with a paranormal tinge” (Publishers Weekly)” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter finds Savich and Sherlock confronting t...
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We Were Killers Once
Becky Masterman"Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn, with her trademark toughness, raw humor, and human frailty, is back and better than ever in Masterman’s latest novel. As Quinn is drawn into an infa...
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Boston Mob
Marc SonginiThe New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, boo...
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True Blue
Stephen Friend, Terry Turchie & Miranda DevineAs seen on Huckabee A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America.Stephen Friend had hi...
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Rage Against the Dying
Becky MastermanYou have never met an (ex) FBI agent like Brigid Quinn"Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break ev...
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Fear the Darkness
Becky MastermanIt's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder. That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline….Psychopaths have preferences for Star...
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Wired
Julie GarwoodA beautiful computer hacker and a badboy FBI agent must collaboratein more ways than onein this sexy, suspenseful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.Alli...
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Do No Harm
Robert PobiIn Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually welldisguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern...
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Cold Zero
Christopher WhitcombOnly 200 people have ever been in Christopher Whitcomb's elite branch of the F.B.I. The Hostage Rescue Team is its most highly trained and specialized squadron equivalent to the N...
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A Panicked Premonition
Victoria LaurieIn New York Times bestselling author Victoria Laurie’s newest Psychic Eye mystery, Abby Cooper has one rule to follow: don’t panic!Professional psychic and FBI consultant Abby Coop...
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Collecting the Dead
Spencer KopeMagnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite threeman Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly needed, he works as a tracker. The...
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Voices Carry
Mariah StewartFeaturing two fascinating characters from her acclaimed bestseller BrownEyed Girl, Mariah Stewart delivers a pageturner of passion and suspense that brings the dangerous past of FB...
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The Hard Stuff
Wayne KramerThe first memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit protopunk legends The MC5"Voyeuristically dramatic."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In...
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Whispers of the Dead
Spencer KopeA series of bizarre murdersthe victims nearly unidentifiableforces FBI tracker “Steps” Craig to match wits with the most coldblooded killer he’s ever encountered.There has been a m...
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A Higher Loyalty
James Comey#1 New York Times Bestseller now in paperback with new material The inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels premiering September 2020In hi...
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American Radical
Tamer Elnoury & Kevin MaurerThe explosive New York Times bestselling memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterte...
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Hunting the Unabomber
Lis WiehlThe spellbinding account of the most complex and captivating manhunt in American history. "A truecrime masterpiece." Booklist (starred review)On April 3, 1996, a t...
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Echoes of the Dead
Spencer KopeA group of missing friends forces 'Steps' Craig to contend with the most twisted killer he's ever encountered in Spencer Kope's Echoes of the Dead.Magnus “Steps” Craig is the best ...
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The Hunt for KSM
Terry McDermott & Josh MeyerThe definitive account of the decadelong pursuit and capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the terrorist mastermind of 9/11. Only minutes after United 175 plowed into the World Trade ...
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The Perfect Candidate
Peter Stone“The perfect YA thriller for right nowthink John Grisham meets John Green.” Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Creatures “Gripping and twisty, but also ...
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My FBI
Louis J. FreehA spectacular New York Times and Washington Post bestseller, My FBI is the definitive account of American law enforcement during the Clinton years and in the runup to September 11....
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You Were Never Really Here
Jonathan AmesNow a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance.Joe has witness...
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City of Windows
Robert Pobi"City of Windows is moving, breathtakinga great entertainment." The Wall Street Journal “A tough, wise, knowing narrative voice, a great plot, a great setting, and even better char...
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The Lion
Nelson DeMilleIn this eagerly awaited followup to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the AntiTerrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for ...