African Americans, Surveillance of -- Alsop, Joseph (1910-1989) -- Amerasia "Spy case" -- America First Committee -- American Civil Liberties Union -- American Indian Movement -- American Legion Contact Program -- American Protective League -- American Youth Congress -- Amos, James E. (1879-1953) -- Atomic espionage -- Attorney General of the United States -- Badges, FBI -- Baughman, Frank (1895-1971) -- Bentley, Elizabeth Terrill (1908-1963) -- Bielaski, Alexander Bruce (1883-1964) -- Black Panther Party (1966-1982) -- Black v. United States -- Bonaparte, Charles J. (1851-1921) -- Branch Davidians -- Brasco, Donnie (Joseph D. Pistone, 1939-) -- Break-ins -- British Intelligence, FBI and -- Burns, William John (1861-1932) -- Campus Police, FBI and -- Capitol Hill insurrection -- Celebrity criminals of the 1930s -- Chambers, Whittaker (1901-1961) -- Christianity, FBI and -- Church Committee -- Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI -- Civil Rights -- Clegg, Hugh H. (1898-1979) -- Clinton, Hillary, email investigation -- COINTELPRO -- black nationalist hate -- COINTELPRO -- new left -- COINTELPRO -- white hate groups -- Cold War espionage -- Comey, James Brien (1960-) -- Comintern Apparatus (COMRAP) -- Communist Control Act of 1954 -- Communist infiltration (COMINFIL) -- Communist Party USA -- Congress, FBI and -- Congressional Oversight -- Cook, Fred J. (1911-2003) -- Cooper, Courtney Ryley (1886-1940) -- Coplon, Judith (1921-2011) -- Counterintelligence -- Counterintelligence program -- Counterterrorism -- Crime records section/division -- Criminal investigative division -- Cummings, Homer (1870-1956) -- Cybercrime -- DeLoach, Cartha (1920-2013) -- Department of Justice -- Department of Justice investigative guidelines -- Dillinger, John (1903-1934) -- Director of the FBI -- Divisions -- Domestic terrorism -- Donovan, William Joseph (1883-1959) -- Drug enforcement -- Dyer Act (Motor Vehicle Theft Act) -- Economic espionage -- Electronic surveillance -- Espionage Act of 1917 -- FBI Academy -- FBI Agents Association -- FBI Headquarters -- Federal employee loyalty-security program -- Felt, Mark (1913-2008) -- Field Office -- Files -- Financial crime -- Finch, Stanley Wellington (1872-1951) -- Flynn, William J. (1867-1928) -- Foreign Agents Registration Act -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- Fortas, Abe (1910-1982) -- Foxworth, Percy E. (1906-1943) -- Freedom of Information Act -- Freeh, Louis J. (1950-) -- Gandy, Helen (1897-1988) -- G-Men (Government Men) -- Goldman, Emma (1869-1940) -- Gray, L. Patrick, III (1916-2005) -- Hanssen, Robert (1944-) -- Hate crimes -- Hearst, Patty (1954-) -- Hiss, Alger (1904-1996) -- Hoffa, James (Jimmy) R. (1913-n.d.) -- Hollywood ten -- Hoover, J. Edgar (1895-1972) -- Hostage rescue team -- Hottel, Guy (1902-1990) -- House Un-American Activities Committee -- Huston Plan -- I was a communist for the FBI (1951) -- Information technology -- Ingalls, Laura Houghtaling (1893-1967) -- Intelligence community, FBI and -- Intelligence Letter Program (INLET) -- Investigative techniques -- Iran-Contra Affair -- Johnson, John "Jack" Arthur (1878-1946) -- Johnson, Lyndon B. (1908-1973) -- Jones, James Wormley "Jack" (1884-1958) -- Jones, Milton A. (1913-1994) -- Kansas City Massacre -- Kelley, Clarence M. (1911-1997) -- Kennedy Assassination -- Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board -- Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963) -- Kidnappings -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) -- Laboratory services -- Ladd, D. Milton (1903-1960) -- Legal AttacheĢ (Legat) -- LGBTQ persons, FBI and -- Library Awareness Program -- Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-1974) -- Lowenthal, Max (1888-1971) -- Mafia, FBI discovery of -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) -- Mann Act/White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 -- McCabe, Andrew (1968-) -- McCarran Act of 1950 -- McCarthy, Joseph (1908-1957) -- McCarthyism/Hooverism -- Means, Gaston B. (1879-1938) -- Mississippi burning case (MIBURN) -- Most wanted fugitives program -- Mueller, Robert (1944-) -- Nathan, Harold (1880-1963) -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime -- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States -- National Crime Information Center -- National Intelligence Act of 1980 -- National Popular Government League -- Nichols, Louis B. (1906-1977) -- Nixon, Richard M. (1913-1994) -- Nuclear Nonproliferation, FBI and -- Obscene file -- Obscenity investigations -- Office of Liaison and International Affairs -- Office of Professional Responsibility -- Office of Public and Congressional Affairs -- Oklahoma City bombing -- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 -- Operation Solo -- Organized crime -- Osage "Reign of Terror" -- Palmer raids (1919-1920) -- Pan Am Flight 103 -- Pentagon papers -- Peonage -- Pike Committee -- Political surveillance -- Popular culture, FBI in -- Preventative detention programs -- Profiling -- Prohibition Enforcement, FBI and -- Purvis, Melvin (1903-1960) -- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970 -- Reforms of the FBI after 9/11 -- Remington, William (1917-1954) -- Reno, Janet (1938-2016) -- Resident agencies -- Responsibilities Program -- Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945) -- Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) -- Ruby Ridge standoff -- Russian Hackilng of 2016 presidential election -- Sedition Act of 1918 -- Selective Service Act of 1917 -- Senate Internal Security Subcommittee -- September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks -- Sessions, William (1930-2020) -- Sex Deviates Program and File -- Slacker raids -- Smith Act of 1940 -- Smith, William French (1917-1990) -- Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI -- Special agent -- Special Intelligence Service -- Special weapons and tactics -- Stevenson, Adlai, II (1900-1965) -- Stone, Harlan Fiske (1872-1946) -- Strzok, Peter (1970-) -- Students for a Democratic Society -- Sullivan, William (1912-1977) -- Supreme Court, FBI and -- Survey of racial conditions in the United States -- Symbionese Liberation Army -- Tamm, Edward A. (1906-1985) -- Teapot Dome Scandal (1921-1924) -- Tolson, Clyde (1900-1975) -- Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972) -- Trump, Donald J. (1946-) -- Turrou, Leon George (1895-1986) -- TWA Flight 800 -- Unabomber -- Undercover operations -- USA Patriot Act -- VENONA Program -- Vietnam War -- Violent crime -- Walsh, Thomas (1859-1933) -- The Watergate scandal -- The weather underground -- Webster, William (1924-) -- Welles, Benjamin Sumner (1892-1961) -- White Slave Division -- Whitehead, Don (1908-1981) -- Wickersham Commission -- World Trade Center Bombing -- World War I Espionage -- World War II Espionage -- The X-Files.
Summary:
This resource uses a combination of encyclopedia entries and primary sources to provide a comprehensive overview of the FBI, detailing its history, most famous leaders and agents, institutional structure and authority, law enforcement responsibilities, reporting relationships to other parts of government, and major events and controversies.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.