While you would expect government agencies to actually investigate real crimes that are being committed, the FBI has ...

The former assistant of J. Edgar Hoover has written a book about the FBI’s first director. “The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover” was written by Paul Letersky, who later became a field ...

In the wake of its success, Hoover sought to double the FBI's budget, but he ran into opposition from a hostile senator and was forced to admit that he'd never made an arrest. The J Edgar Hoover ...

Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is often criticized for his zealous, unconstitutional surveillance of civil rights leaders and suspected communists. But many people don’t know Hoover fought to ...

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant ...

TWO books published years apart yield important information about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI is the premier domestic ...

Hoping for another chance at glory, he applied for a job with J. Edgar Hoover’s budding Division of Investigation—the future FBI. A former U.S. attorney in Chicago wrote to recommend Ness.

A seal reading "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in ...

A gang of local boys led police to the cave hideout of a wanted killer after recognizing his photo in the newspaper.

The FBI of the past Some observers have compared Patel to J. Edgar Hoover, the domineering FBI director between 1924 and 1972 who was renowned for FBI abuses. In 1956, Hoover created COINTELPRO ...