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Edgar Hoover Building |description=Formerly focused on "law enforcement", the Federal Bureau of Investigation has since 2013 been officially prioritising "national security". Director for life [[J. Edgar Hoover]] used it for multiple purposes over the decades - most notably muckraking for information to be used later as blackmail material. |subgroups=FBI/Criminal Cyber Response and Services Branch, FBI/Directorate of Intelligence, FBI/Human Resources Branch, FBI/Information and Technology Branch, FBI/National Security Branch, FBI/Science and Technology Branch, FBI/Academy, FBI/Laboratory |start=July 26, 1908 |num_staff=35104 |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/FBI |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FBI }} The '''Federal Bureau of Investigation''' is the [[political police]] and domestic [[intelligence service]] of the [[United States]] and its principal federal law enforcement agency. ==Official Narrative== From the start, the FBI excelled at promoting an image of itself as a tireless and efficient G-men who skillfully tracked down dangerous criminals<ref>http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/04/09/media-conned-public-loving-fbi-book-review/</ref>. In fact, crime hunting is a secondary activity, while surveilling and crushing political dissidence is priority work. {{QB|"After a few tentative steps into the realm of publicity during the late [[1920s]], the Bureau became a key element of FDR’s [[New Deal]] war on crime in the mid-[[1930s]]. Two journalists, independent author Courtney Ryley Cooper and Neil (Rex) Collier, collaborated with Hoover and his top lieutenants to create a template for FBI news stories emphasizing responsibility and science and featuring Hoover as America’s always careful and reliable top law enforcement officer. With the creation of the public relations-oriented Crime Records Section in 1935 and the establishment of clear lines of public communication authority, Hoover had both a public relations message and a management team to amplify and enforce it."<ref>http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/04/09/media-conned-public-loving-fbi-book-review</ref><br/>Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image” by [[Matthew Cecil]] }} But when a group of activist, the [[Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI]] burglarized a FBI field office on 8 March 1971, the documents they found exposed what the FBI was really about: {{SMWQ |subjects=FBI,surveillance |text=According to its analysis of the documents in this FBI office, 1 percent were devoted to organized crime, mostly gambling; 30 percent were "manuals, routine forms, and similar procedural matter"; 40 percent were devoted to [[political surveillance]] and the like, including two cases involving [[right-wing groups]], ten concerning [[immigrants]], and over 200 on left or liberal groups. Another 14 percent of the documents concerned draft resistance and "leaving the military without government permission." The remainder concerned bank robberies, murder, rape, and interstate theft. |authors=Noam Chomsky,Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI |source_URL=https://chomsky.info/199909__/ }} And in 1959, again showing priorities, over 400 agents in the FBI's New York Field Office were assigned to "[[communism]]" and only four to [[organized crime]]<ref>http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hoover.html</ref> [[image:FBI_CVE.gif|left|480px|thumbnail|A screenshot of an FBI game to promote the story about vulnerable people being "[[radicalized]]" into "[[violent extremism]]" by exposure to "[[fake news]]" from independent media outlets on the [[internet]].]] In any case, even the 'primary mission' of the FBI, formerly "law enforcement" was noted to have silently changed in 2013 to "[[national security]]". FBI spokesman Paul Bresson stated dryly that "When our mission changed after [[9/11]], our fact sheet changed to reflect that".<ref>http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/05/fbi_drops_law_enforcement_as_primary_mission#sthash.dTe9DVfT.jIRBPwhT.dpbs</ref> <ref>https://cve.fbi.gov/</ref> A webpage posted at {{t|cve.fbi.gov}} in February 2016 claimed that "It’s the FBI’s primary responsibility — working with its many partners — to protect the nation from attacks by [[violent extremist]]s."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160210033042/https://cve.fbi.gov/</ref> ==History== The FBI has its origins in the [[General Intelligence Division]] which was created in 1919 by Attorney General [[A. Mitchell Palmer]] to collect information on radical organizations. [[J. Edgar Hoover]], who would remain in power for the next several decades, was appointed as its head.<ref>Churchill, W., & Vander Wall, J. (2001). COINTELPRO Papers. Retrieved 2020, from https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Government/COINTELPRO.S.pdf, 297</ref> [[image:Hoover-JEdgar-LOC.jpg|left|230px]] ===J. Edgar Hoover=== {{FA|J. Edgar Hoover}} More than anyone else, the FBI is associated with [[deep politician]] [[J. Edgar Hoover]]. In 1924 he became its first director, a job he kept until his death in 1972, to no little extent because all the politicians were afraid of what was in his personal archive,<ref>"Hoover, J. Edgar", Columbia University Press, 2007, sixth edition</ref> and also because he did an efficient job at crushing threats to the system. According to President [[Harry S. Truman]], Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no [[Gestapo]] or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in [[sexual blackmail|sex-life scandals]] and plain [[blackmail]]. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him".<ref>Anthony Summers, "The secret life of J Edgar Hoover, The Guardian, Sunday January 1, 2012</ref>. ==Activities and Methods== {{YouTubeVideo |code=g-vVqieLG_c |caption="Lies The FBI Told Me" - a video by [[James Corbett]] ([http://archive.today/2020.11.23-052153/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-vVqieLG_c archived]) }} ===COINTELPRO=== {{FA|COINTELPRO}} From 1956, the FBI ran a large-scale covert campaign to sow confusion, strife and terror among domestic opponents, including the [[Civil Rights Movement]] and other black liberation groups especially the [[Black Panthers]], the protests against the [[Vietnam War]], the blossoming alternative press, the [[American Indian Movement]], [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican nationalists]] and leftist in general. The methods are still in use by the FBI to this day{{cn}}. ===Terrorist Agents Provocateurs=== The FBI has a roster of 15,000 spies who not only infiltrate and report back information, but actively assist and encourage people to commit "[[terrorism]]", so that the FBI can then catch them.<ref>http://archive.today/2020.10.14-182337/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html</ref> In 2012 [[Project Censored]] reported that the "majority of terrorist plots in the [[United States]]" are actually incited by FBI agents, and reports that such informants receive cash rewards of up to $100,000 per case.<ref>http://www.projectcensored.org/4-fbi-agents-responsible-for-majority-of-terrorist-plots-in-the-united-states/</ref><ref>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants</ref> ===The McCarthyist Persecutions=== [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and the FBI were key allies of Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] and members of the [[House of Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC). ===Hollywood=== The FBI has had close connections to Hollywood since the 1930s. One side to it was a PR-effort, leading to a very positive image of the FBI as incorruptible and efficient, an image that has lasted to this day in movies and TV-series. For decades, the FBI put a huge effort into weeding out left-wing workers in from the entertainment industry. The effort included making [[blacklists]] leading to work bans, and general harassment as a predecessor to [[Cointelpro]]. For example, [[Charlie Chaplin]] was put on an FBI blacklist in 1948, preventing him from working in [[Hollywood]]. Although living in the [[United States]] for 40 years, he never took out US citizenship. When heading for [[Britain]] for a holiday in [[1952]], word came through that if he were to return to America, he would be arrested.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-britain/charlie-chaplin-barred-from-us/</ref> He never made another Hollywood movie, and only returned briefly once, twenty years later. For workers with less stature, the persecution was even more devastating. ===Entrapment=== The FBI coerces thousands of young people, as the price for settling a minor legal problem, into dangerous careers as an informants.<ref name=www>http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/26/classic-whowhatwhy-tamerlan-tsarnaev-double-agent-recruited-fbi/</ref> [[Sarah Stillman]], writing in ''[[The New Yorker]]' that "The snitch-based system has proved notoriously unreliable, fuelling wrongful convictions".<ref name=www/> ===1988 Lockerbie bombing=== {{YouTubeVideo |code=ZsSLarqlI1I |align=left |width=300px |caption=30 years on: FBI remembers [[Pan Am Flight 103|Pan Am 103]] }} The bombing of [[Pan Am Flight 103]] over Lockerbie in [[Scotland]], believed to be carried out by [[Libya]]n intelligence officers in retaliation for [[US]] actions against then-[[Libya]]n dictator [[Muammar Gaddafi]], was a transformative event for the FBI, one that changed the way the Bureau investigates terrorism and assists victims of crimes.<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/remembering-pan-am-flight-103-30-years-later-121418 "30 Years Later, Still Actively Seeking Justice"]</ref> ===Mass Surveillance=== Since at least 2010, the FBI has been planting hidden microphones in a range of places from light fixtures in courthouses to carparks, bushes and bus stops.<ref>http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=48816 saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20160718194020/http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=48816 Archive.org]</ref><ref>http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/05/11/fbi-hid-surveillance-devices-around-alameda-county-courthouse saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20160801060039/http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/05/11/fbi-hid-surveillance-devices-around-alameda-county-courthouse Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.vn/KRjBB Archive.is]</ref> January 2016 guidelines (based on the UK's widely criticised [[Prevent]] programme) told high [[school]]s across the USA to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists.<ref>http://projectcensored.org/14-fbis-new-plan-spy-high-school-students-across-country/ saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20161108220508/http://projectcensored.org/14-fbis-new-plan-spy-high-school-students-across-country/ Archive.org]</ref><ref>https://www.salon.com/2016/03/06/the_fbi_has_a_new_plan_to_spy_on_high_school_kids_across_the_country_partner/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20161208130623/http://www.salon.com/2016/03/06/the_fbi_has_a_new_plan_to_spy_on_high_school_kids_across_the_country_partner Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/DWtB7 Archive.is]</ref> ===Assassinations=== Although the FBI tracks how many police officers die in the line of duty, it keeps no such record for how many civilians are killed by police each year.<ref>http://www.projectcensored.org/18-national-database-police-killings-aims-accountability/</ref> ===Child pornography=== The FBI has run [[child pornography]] [[websites]]. The [[ACLU]] obtained documents indicating that it was "actually authorized to takeover 23 child-pornography websites in addition to [[The Playpen]]."<ref>http://shoebat.com/2019/06/18/major-scandal-as-fbi-accidentally-outs-itself-provoking-violence-on-8chan-over-earnest-shooting/</ref> ===Statements=== [[Matt Connolly]], a former Deputy District Attorney noted in 2015 that the FBI does ''not'' record its interviews. Instead, "two FBI agents ask questions and listen to the answers—without tape recording or obtaining a certified transcript. Instead, they return to their office and, based on their recollection and any notes they may have taken during the interview, write up a summary of what transpired. Summaries are, in most cases, written hours later, sometimes even the following day." This record, inaccurate as it might be, then becomes the "official record of what was said during the interview."<ref>http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/07/08/fbis-amazing-trick-to-avoid-accountability/</ref> ===September 11, 2001=== [[Rex Tomb]], Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on [[Ossama Bin Laden]]'s "Most Wanted" web page,replied that {{SMWQ |authors=Rex Tomb |format=inline |source_URL=https://www.globalresearch.ca/fbi-says-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-9-11/2623 |subjects=9-11, Ossama Bin Laden |text=The reason why [[9/11]] is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.}} {{FA|9-11/Israel did it/Dancing Israelis}} [[image:Threeoffivedancingisraelis.jpg|thumbnail|309px|3 of the 5 "Dancing Israelis" on Israeli TV|left]] On [[September 11, 2001]], the FBI arrested 5 Israelis spotted in Manhattan behaving suspiciously. They referred to the group as the 'High Fivers' (after their apparent glee at the 9/11 attacks) but who are elsewhere known as the "[[Dancing Israelis]]". The group, which included two [[Mossad]] agents, were detained for 70 days and then deported. Three of them later stated on Israeli TV that they were in [[New York City]] that morning "to document the event". ===2001 Anthrax attacks=== {{FA|2001 Anthrax attacks}} The [[2001 Anthrax attacks]] prompted the most expensive investigation in the FBI's history, costing around $100,000,000.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/561</ref> This blamed [[Bruce Ivins]], a "lone nut" who had just been found dead, avoiding the need for a trial. [[Richard Lambert]], the FBI officer who was put in charge of the investigation, says that the investigation suffered from intense compartmentalisation and lack of critical resources (such as bioweapons experts). He sued the FBI in 2015, alleging that they were concealing evidence that could have exonerated Ivins.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/ex-fbi-agent-claims-retaliation-for-dissent-in-anthrax-inquiry.html</ref><ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-fbi-hiding-evidence-anthrax-case-20150415-story.html</ref><ref>http://robertlewis.com/blog/amerithrax-deep-state-policing-conspiracy-theory/</ref> ===Waco Massacre=== {{FA|Waco siege}} Between February and April [[1993]], the FBI had the main responsibility for the siege of the religious community [[Branch Davidians]] in Texas. After a 51 day siege, the FBI launched an assault and fired tear gas attack and incendiary canisters into the housing complex, in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the ranch. Shortly thereafter, the center quickly became engulfed in flames. The fire resulted in the deaths of 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children, two pregnant women, and [[David Koresh]] himself. When the use of incendiary canisters leaked out, the FBI at first denied causing the fire. Eventually an internal [[Justice Department]] investigation concluded in 2000 that incendiary tear gas canisters were used by the FBI, but maintained that sect members had started the fire in three separate places at the very same time as the FBI threw in the canisters.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/21/waco.investigation.04/</ref> ===Vince Foster's Death=== {{FA|Vince Foster/Death}} The [[US Congress]] concluded that the [[Vince Foster/Death|death]] of [[Vince Foster]] was a [[suicide]]. ===Russian Connection=== {{FA|Russiagate}} [[FBI]] agent [[Charles McGonigal]], who was a part of the team investigating [[Trump]]-[[Russian]] collusion, was arrested in January [[2023]] for his connections to a Russian [[billionaire]] sanctioned by the U.S for [[bribing]], [[blackmailing]] and acts of violence against Russians. McGonigal promised to help Russian [[billionaire]] [[Oleg Deripaska]] to bypass US sanctions by using shell companies while also investigating and potentially eliminating Russian opponents. [[The Inquirer]] ran an editorial claiming the [[New York Times]], immediately claiming the [[FBI]] "used the same crooked FBI agent to win the US [[2016 Election]]" for [[Donald Trump]] and suggesting the deals made by Deripaska with [[Mitch McConnell]] and [[Paul Manafort]] could be part of the deal, hinting a lot more politicians to have used Russian oligarchs for business contracts<ref>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html</ref> ==''Non''-investigations== [[FOIA]] documents have revealed telling cases of FBI failures to investigate. ===Organized Crime=== For many decades, [[J. Edgar Hoover]] persistently denied the existence of [[organized crime]], despite numerous gangland shootings as Mafia groups struggled for control of the lucrative profits deriving from [[illegal alcohol]] sales during [[Prohibition]], and later for control of [[prostitution]], [[illegal drugs]] and other criminal enterprises. In the 1950s, evidence of the FBI's unwillingness to investigate the Mafia became a topic of public criticism. <ref>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-19-mn-54360-story.html</ref> Eventually the FBI was forced to take some action. The reluctance might have been because the Mob had incriminating pictures of Hoover; or because [[organized crime]] play a hidden but central role in [[deep state]] activities, and have rendered many useful services. ===Six top FBI officials dead before testifying=== Six top FBI officials died in a six month period in [[1977]], just as the [[House Select Committee on Assassinations]] where to call them as witnesses, including [[William Sullivan]];[[Louis Nicholas]], special assistant to [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and his liaison with the [[Warren Commission]]; [[Alan H. Belmont]], special assistant to Hoover; [[James Cadigan]], document expert with access to documents that related to death of [[John F. Kennedy]]; [[J. M. English]], former head of [[FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory]] where Oswald's rifle and pistol were tested; [[Donald Kaylor]], FBI fingerprint chemist who examined prints found at the JFK assassination scene.<ref>https://spartacus-educational.com/USAfbi.htm</ref> ===Dallas occupy plot=== {{FA|Dallas occupy plot}} FBI documents uncovered in 2013 through [[FOIA]] reveal that the FBI either turned a blind eye to or abetted a plot to [[assassinate]] leaders of the Dallas [[Occupy]] movement.<ref>http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/judge-orders-fbi-to-explain-occupy-wall-st-assassination-plot/</ref><ref>http: //rt.com/usa/fbi-assassination-ows-sniper-227/</ref> ===Loyd Jowers=== {{FA|Loyd Jowers}} In 1993 [[Loyd Jowers]] confessed to involvement in the [[assassination of Martin Luther King]]. In spite of this, the FBI took no steps to investigate him. In 1999, a jury unanimously found him guilty of involvement in the killing, but the FBI still took no action, according to a [[FOIA]] response.<ref name=MR>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/apr/04/fbi-mlk-jowers/</ref> ==2020 AP investigation== An investigation by the [[Associated Press]] found that sexual misconduct is a constant problem among ranking agents.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/fbi-sexual-misconduct-investigation-a0d33e4770acef8ff5f4a48f0267202c</ref> ==Organization Structure== [[image:FBI-organizational-chart.jpg|right|540px]] The [[FBI Directorate of Intelligence]] used to be part of the NSB but as of 2014 operates as a separate organizational entity within FBI. ==External links== *[http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Category:FBI Set of radio shows on the FBI] {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{Reflist}} [[category:FBI| ]] sklt8cc298rn3qsj8p023delpu98bi2