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OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
Thu Jul 26, 2018, 03:20 AM Jul 2018

Happy Birthday FBI ! 110 years old today. Never has it been as tested as it is right no

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, formerly the Bureau of Investigation, is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency. see Wikipedia

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
Founded: July 26, 1908, United States of America
Motto: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
Jurisdiction: United States of America
First director: J. Edgar Hoover
Founders: J. Edgar Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Joseph Bonaparte

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Happy Birthday FBI ! 110 years old today. Never has it been as tested as it is right no (Original Post) OnDoutside Jul 2018 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2018 #1
Don't make us learn Russian dalton99a Jul 2018 #2
lol.. who knew 110 years ago.. that Cha Jul 2018 #5
I think your math might be off. kag Jul 2018 #3
Thanks for spotting that, I must have had 80 stuck in my head for some reason. OnDoutside Jul 2018 #4
Hoover was neither the first director nor a founder Spider Jerusalem Jul 2018 #6

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Spider Jerusalem

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6. Hoover was neither the first director nor a founder
Thu Jul 26, 2018, 07:08 AM
Jul 2018

he was born in 1895 and would've been 13. He took over in the '20's (1926 I think?) at which time it was renamed from "The Bureau of Investigation" to "The Federal Bureau of Investigation".

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