Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Chronology
Contents
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 Attaché (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 Hacking 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
Primary Documents
1. Department of Justice 1871 Law Enforcement Appropriation
2. President Theodore Roosevelt’s Fifth Annual Message to Congress, 1905
3. Attorney General Annual Report 1907, Need of a Detective Force
4. Attorney General Order of 1908, Creating the FBI
5. Attorney General Annual Report 1908, Reporting Creation of FBI
6. Attorney General Letter to President Roosevelt on Creation of FBI, 1909
7. Attorney General Testimony before House on Creation of FBI, 1909
8. Description of FBI Target Jack Johnson, 1927
9. Department of State Message on Trying to Extradite Johnson, 1915
10. FBI Document on Ida Wells, 1919
11. Peonage Act of 1867
12. Attorney General Annual Report 1911,on Peonage
13. Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
14. Introduction of White Slave Traffic Act, 1910
15. Stanley Finch Speech, 1912, on White Slavery
16. FBI White Slave Trafficking Enumeration Sheet, 1911
17. Introduction of Dyer Act, 1919
18. Amendment to the FBI’s Appropriation Act, 1916
19. The Espionage Act of 1917
20. The Selective Service Act of 1917
21. Sedition Act of 1918
22. Bureau of Investigation Report on Enforcing the Selective Service Act, Section 12, 1917–1918
23. Bureau of Investigation Orders to Agents during the Palmer Raids, 1920
24. Testimony of Abuses during the Palmer Raids, 1920
25. Second Testimony of Abuses during the Palmer Raids, 1920
26. Statement by Harlan Fiske Stone on Palmer Raids, 1921
27. Hoover’s Orders to Agents Regarding Obscene Evidence, 1925
28. FDR’s Order to Resume Intelligence Investigations, 1936, Part 1
29. FDR’s Order to Resume IntelligenceInvestigations, 1936, Part
30. FDR’s Secret Order Authorizing FBI Use of Wiretaps, 1940
31. Truman’s Reauthorization of FDR’s Wiretap Order, 1946
32. Hoover’s Letter to FDR Ingratiating Himself with President Roosevelt, 1940
33. FBI Memo on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Cooperation with FBI, 1952
34. FBI Dissemination of Information to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Committee and Others, 1953
35. FBI Document Authorizing COINTELPRO, 1956
36. FBI Document on COINTELPRO–New Left, 1968
37. FBI Document on COINTELPRO–Black Nationalist Hate, 1967
38. FBI Document on FBI Break-ins, 1966
39 FBI Responsibilities Program Document, 1953
40. President Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order Exempting FBI Director Hoover from Mandatory Retirement, 1964
41. Example of VENONA Program Decrypt Re: Judith Coplon, 1944
42. FBI Director Hoover’s Letter to the White House Regarding Arrested LGBTQ Americans,1950
43. FBI Document on 1950 Origin of the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program, 1951
44. FBI Sex Deviates Program Policy Memo, 1951
45. National Archives Documents on Destruction of the FBI’s Sex Deviates File, 1977
46. FBI Memo on Its PROHO Program, 1965
47. FBI Document on Providing Nixon Administration with Information on LGBTQ Americans, 1970
48. Anonymous Letter, with Typos, from the FBI to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., November 21, 1964
49. FBI Document on “Racial Matters,” 1963
50. FBI Document Authorizing Its INLET Program for the Nixon White House, 1969
51. FBI Document Detailing FBI Director Hoover’s Advice to President Nixon Re Obscenity, 1970
52. 1976 Law Limiting the FBI Director’s Term
53. Senator Ted Kennedy’s Comments on FBI Charter, 1978
54. FBI Director William Webster’s Comments on FBI Charter, 1978
55. Attorney General Levi’s Guidelines for FBI Investigations, 1976
56. Attorney General Levi’s FBI Informant Guidelines, 1976
57. FBI Documents on Its Adult Obscenity Initiative of the 2000s, 2004–2005
58. Attorney General Holder’s Guidelines on Communications with the White House, 2009
59. Attorney General Holder’s Guidelines on Activities during an Election, 2012
60. FBI Director James Comey’s Personal Memos of His Interactions with President Trump, 2017
61. A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election, June 2018
62. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s Memo on FBI Director Comey Firing, 2017
63. Selections from the FBI Summary Document on the FBI’s Clinton Email Investigation, 2016
64. FBI Director Comey’s Letter to Congress on Resumption of Clinton Email Probe, 2016
65. The Steele Dossier, 2016
66. Select Portions of the FBI’s Carter Page FISA Application, 2016
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
