FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008
Title
FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008
Description
In 2008 the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) celebrated its 100th anniversary as a crime fighting and national security agency dedicated to protecting America and the international community from world dangers. During this period there really has not been the investigative equivalent of a dull moment for the FBI. Each point in the Bureau’s history has had its own cast of colorful characters, its own investigative challenges and controversies, its own milestones and major cases.
In this publication you will see an organization that has come a long way, starting as a tentative experiment, maturing and evolving at every step, learning from success and stumbles alike, gaining experience from the latest threat du jour, from gangsters and mobsters, from spies to several killers, from Internet predators to international terrorists.
Over the century the FBI has constantly added to its investigative and intelligence tools and talents, launching a Disaster Squad one decade, a “Most Wanted” list the next; a computer forensics team one decade, a terrorist fly team the next - each innovation building on the last like so many foundation stones.
Over time, the FBI became expert at mapping crime scenes and surveying targets; at poring over financial ledgers and diving into the depths in search of clues; at staging complex undercover operations and breaking cryptic codes; at peering into human cells to help determine guilt or innocence and using intelligence to get its arms around a threat and then disable it. As a result, the FBI has developed a suite of capabilities that is unmatched in any other single national security agency in the world.
In this publication you will see an organization that has come a long way, starting as a tentative experiment, maturing and evolving at every step, learning from success and stumbles alike, gaining experience from the latest threat du jour, from gangsters and mobsters, from spies to several killers, from Internet predators to international terrorists.
Over the century the FBI has constantly added to its investigative and intelligence tools and talents, launching a Disaster Squad one decade, a “Most Wanted” list the next; a computer forensics team one decade, a terrorist fly team the next - each innovation building on the last like so many foundation stones.
Over time, the FBI became expert at mapping crime scenes and surveying targets; at poring over financial ledgers and diving into the depths in search of clues; at staging complex undercover operations and breaking cryptic codes; at peering into human cells to help determine guilt or innocence and using intelligence to get its arms around a threat and then disable it. As a result, the FBI has developed a suite of capabilities that is unmatched in any other single national security agency in the world.
Creator
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Date
No date
Source
Source: United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Relation
Rights
FBI
Publisher
FBI
Contributor
FBI
Format
Logo
Language
English
Type
History
Identifier
Timeline
Coverage
United States
Files
Collection
Reference
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008, FBI, No date
Cite As
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, “FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed April 26, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/102.