Biography of the leader of the FBI

It was he who gave the FBI a modern look, focusing on a laboratory analysis of the material evidence and fingerprints. However, Hoover fought all his life with crime according to the residual principle, considering the main threat to the society of communists and socialists. As the head of the FBI, half a century reluctantly fought with the mafia and willingly - with dissidents, in the material of “newspapers.

The young “Chekist” Edgar Hoover got into law enforcement agencies, starting his career as a “specialist” in political crimes. Studying a lawyer at George Washington University, he worked at the same time as a courier in the order department. As the future head of the FBI, after decades, said, this work fundamentally influenced his personality and attitude to the case, as it made it possible to realize the importance of the ability to compare various documents and evidence.

Immediately after the release, at 22, Hoover ended up in the Ministry of Justice, where he quickly headed the Bureau for the fight against foreign enemies.

It was the year when the country was adapted to the German war that had just been declared, and the bureau was created to monitor the Germans suspicious foreigners and their arrest if necessary. In the year, shortly after the end of the war, Hoover went to work in the Bureau of Investigations that then did not have the word “federal” in the name, where at the age of 24 he headed the American “Countering extremism” - “radical department”.

Therefore, Hoover and his subordinates began to conduct raids against the Communists and anarchists. Basically, emigrants from Italy and Eastern Europe, who were deported, were deported for participation. As a result, on May 10, Hoover, having no work experience except the fight against disloyal citizens, headed the bureau and became its fifth director. By that time, in addition to the main work, he was a member of the Masonic box, namely, the “Scottish charter”.

What exactly was the head of the FBI in it is unknown in it, but Freemasonry was definitely not a short -term enthusiasm for youth, since the box awarded the Hoover of the title of General of the General of the General degree of the year, a quarter of a century after the initial initiation. During this time, three eras managed to change: at first there was a fight against gangsters and mafia x, then the Second World and, finally, Cold War, the fight against the USSR and the world communist movement.

The first program decision of the new chapter was the dismissal from the bureau of all women-agents and the ban on hiring them in the future. This was probably done due to personal beliefs, because from his school years Hoover hated feminism and in the debate opposed the granting of women the right to vote. The success in the fight against the mafia and organized crime was ambiguous.

On the one hand, it was under the Hourer that the rise in banditry began: gangsters in the streets shot their enemies from the Tommigans, in the middle of the world, banks robbed, and the leaders of the mafia, like Al Capone, received power along with congressmen and senior officials. However, there was no direct guilt of the bureau, which initially had little right and could not, for example, pursue the bank robbers, this was the prerogative of the state police.

In addition, American life in the X was a paradise for organized crime groups. Due to the “dry law”, people were forced to buy alcohol from criminals, providing them with a stable source of money. In addition, after the beginning of the “great depression” and mass impoverishment for many people there was no choice but to go to the gang, and banks robbers were perceived almost like “Robin Huda” and wrestlers with oppressors.

At the same time, the Hoover before the X denied the existence of organized crime in the United States as a big problem and was much more interested in the persecution of the Communists. Every year, there was more and more shooting on the streets, and Hoover understood that his career was standing at stake. Therefore, he initiated the reorganization of the bureau, which led to the radical expansion of his powers and capabilities.

Before the reorganization of the Bureau in the FBI, Hoover traveled several times to the laboratory of the Canadian forensic expert Wilfrid Darom to take into account his experience to create his own. Thanks to this, the department acquired a modern look, well familiar from series and films. The frightened taciturn people examining every trifle at the crime scene and packing evidence into laboratory analysis packages were the brainchild of Hoover.

Especially the bureau was interested in fingerprints, of which by the end of the X giant collection gathered. Counterintelligence is not a successful FBI struggle with crime was the main topic of Hoover's criticism in all years. Where better he succeeded in counterintelligence and the struggle against communism. One of the most successful projects to combat the spies was the Venona project - an operation to intercept Soviet encrypted messages during the Second World War and at the end of it.

It was Venona who allowed the trail of agents in the atomic project, despite the very high level of conspiracy used by the NKVD.