Roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” Hoover’s ...

J. Edgar Hoover took over the FBI, then known as the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 when he was 29 years old. At first, agents couldn't carry weapons and reported suspects to other law officials.

Roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” Hoover’s ...

I enjoyed reading the Jan. 18 letter “Retire Hoover’s name from FBI,” which I wholeheartedly agree with. J. Edgar Hoover’s official position was that “there was no such entity as the Mafia.” But the ...

There doesn’t seem to be any doubt these days that the Mafia exists. In fact, that goes without saying. But in the 1950s, not everyone subscribed to that assumption. Jerry Capeci of Gang Land News, ...

No federal bureaucrat played a bigger role in 20th-century law enforcement than J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), who served as the head of the FBI and its predecessor agency for half a century. Hoover ...

No one in American history wielded so much power for so long as J. Edgar Hoover. He created a peerless law-enforcement agency in his own unsmiling image and served eight presidents, from Coolidge to ...

J. Edgar Hoover held on to power for too long. From 1924 until his death in 1972, during the administrations of eight American presidents, he headed the Bureau of Investigation, later named the ...

Upon hearing there is a new biography of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, you can be forgiven for flaring your eyes and breathing a sigh. Haven’t we done this before? The man who harassed ...

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919. It ended during the presidency of his friend Richard ...