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Federal Bureau of Investigation

U.S. federal law enforcement agency

14 dated entries naming Federal Bureau of Investigation, drawn from 13 separate years between 1887 CE and 2020 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1887India formed the Central Special Branch, now called the Intelligence Bureau (IB). It is India's equivalent to the US's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Intelligence Bureau is said to be the oldest organization of its type.source

20th century

  • 1908July 26 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded in the United States.source
  • 1924May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.source
  • 1949June 8 – Second Red Scare in the United States: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named as Communist Party members in a Federal Bureau of Investigation report.source
  • 1964May 7 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.source
  • 1971March 8 – The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into the Media, Pennsylvania offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and removes all of its files.source
  • 1972June 23 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the investigation by the F.B.I. into the Watergate break-ins.source
  • 1980February 2 – Abscam: FBI personnel target members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.source
  • 1985May 11 – The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.source
  • 198521 November – Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence analyst who spied for Israeli intelligence, is arrested by the FBI at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington while trying to seek asylum there.source

21st century

  • 2003May 25 — A Boeing 727 aircraft is stolen from an airport in Luanda, Angola triggering an international terrorist investigation by the FBI and CIA. The aircraft and its pilots were never found.source
  • 2008January 30 - FBI director Robert Mueller visits Vietnam and Cambodia on a mission to expand legal cooperation. In Phnom Penh, he is to open a new FBI office.source
  • 2015June 2 – The FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign amidst an FBI-led corruption investigation, and calls for an extraordinary congress to elect a new president as soon as possible.source
  • 202011 February – Kenya and the FBI sign an anti-terrorist agreement, the first of its kind outside the United States.source

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