SOURCE: BlackVault — theblackvault.com (Tier 2)
CATEGORY: ARCHIVE
CREDIBILITY SCORE: 74/100 | EVIDENCE SCORE: 30/100
LIKELY EXPLANATION: reputable lead — review and contextualize
TAGS: archive
Source Excerpt
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI’s predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover is also credited with establishing and expanding a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List, renamed in 2001 as the Terrorist Screening Database which the FBI still compiles and manages. Document Archive Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Releases Hoover, J. Edgar – FBI Release #1 – J. Edgar Hoover Files – [573 Pages, 297MB] Hoover, J. Edgar – FBI Vault Release #1 – J. Edgar Hoover Files – [1,920 Pages, 315MB] Hoover, J. Edgar – FBI Vault Release #2 – J. Edgar Hoover Appointment and Phone Logs – [3,994 Pages, 1.2GB] Hoover, J. Edgar – FBI Vault Release #3 – J. Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential (O&C) Files – [1,903 Pages, 59MB] Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Releases Hoover, J. Edgar
Documents
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/jedgarhoover-fbi1.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/jedgarhoover-fbi1.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/jedgarhoover-fbiappointments.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/jedgarhoover-fbioandc.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/navy/2022-000337-RELEASE.pdf
- https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/pis/2022-FPIS-00005.pdf
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