Each country has its own law enforcement agencies. Their work is aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens, solving crimes, combating offenses, protecting the territorial integrity of the state, and fighting terrorism. The functions of some of them include the organization of counterintelligence and intelligence activities. This array of functions is performed by various services and bodies, which have one degree or another of subordination to the government top. The work of these bodies is necessary, since the level of crime and terrorism is great today in almost all countries of the world, especially in the United States. This state has always been famous for having a bulky bureaucratic apparatus. The founding fathers created a real political machine that has been operating for several centuries in a row. For this system to function properly, special departments are needed that will work for the good of the state and fulfill the function of maintaining law and order. Below we look at one of the most important bodies in the United States, which plays a paramount role in the fight against crime and counterintelligence. The name of this structure is the FBI.
FBI Overview
The interpretation of this concept is as follows: Federal Bureau of Investigation. This agency is part of the US Department of Justice, but it is subordinate to the attorney general. The agency is part of the intelligence community of the United States of America. The FBI is authorized to investigate any violations of federal laws, to ensure national security, as well as the safety of the US president. The agency also performs many other functions, for example, checking citizens who want to work in government agencies, monitoring cyberspace in the United States. This body plays a special role in the fight against organized crime. The FBI has entire departments involved in introducing agents into criminal groups and their operational development. There are a lot of rumors and speculation about the illegal operations of the FBI, but this will be written later. In no case can the CIA and the FBI be identified. The decoding of these names is completely different, as well as the functions performed by them.
History of creation. Bureau of Investigation
The organization originates from the Bureau of Investigation, founded in 1908. The initiative to create such a body was filed by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte.
He was supported by the then-dominant president, Theodore Roosevelt. It should be noted that the 1908 Bureau of Investigation was very different from the modern FBI. The decoding of the name makes it clear that the current agency is engaged in federal offenses, and the Bureau of Investigation did not have a clear list of functions. Its creation was due to the unstable political situation in the world. The states were on the verge of World War I, while the activities of intelligence agencies escalated. The Bureau of Investigation was supposed to counter the threat of proliferation of foreign agents, as well as provide protection against the spread of communism in the United States. In addition, the Bureau worked to enforce the Prohibition in the United States.
1935 FBI
Since 1935, the abbreviation FBI (FBI) appears in the list of US law enforcement agencies . The director of the department was Edward Hoover. From this moment begins a completely new history of the department. FBI founder John Edward Hoover was stiff and pedantic.
During his 37-year career as head of the department, significant results have been achieved in the fight against organized crime and counterintelligence. The activities of the FBI have largely gone beyond the ordinary law enforcement agency. This is evidenced by the amount of authority received by special agents. The FBI's activity is most clearly seen during the Great Depression in the United States, when there was a big riot of crime in the country. During this period, many criminal bosses, criminals and other representatives of the immoral environment were imprisoned or killed. Of these, we can distinguish John Dillinger, Baby Nelson,
George Kelly, Handsome Floyd and others.
FBI Counterintelligence
There are many vowels and tacit functions performed by the FBI. The fight against crime is not the main task of the agency. A more priority industry is counterintelligence. Initially, the counterintelligence function was only to prevent the spread of communism. But after the Second World War, the fight against foreign agents, primarily Soviet ones, became a paramount task.
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field of activity of the FBI is strictly classified, so there are very few precise statements. Nevertheless, articles are regularly published in the American press about the detention by FBI agents of a foreign spy in a country.
Structure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Like any serious law enforcement agency, the FBI has its own internal structure, which includes the following elements:
- Head office for employee employment.
- Office of Disciplines.
- Office dealing with all issues of the public, as well as communications with Congress.
- Departments of administrative services and counter-terrorism.
- CSR (criminal investigation department).
- Inspection Department.
- The investigation department.
- Department of National Security.
- Department of training.
The official name of the agency in the USA is FBI. Deciphering the name makes it possible to understand the jurisdiction of the structure, which is common throughout the United States. Many people think that the FBI literally takes functions from the police, but this is not so.
The jurisdiction of the police extends only to the state in which it directly works, while the FBI operates throughout America. The agency is investigating “federal crimes” (kidnapping, bank robbery, terrorism, attempted assassination of senior government officials, etc.).
Illegal activities of the Bureau
Throughout the existence of the FBI, many facts surfaced about the illegal operations of the department. Moreover, witnesses were often found. For example, COINTELPRO is the largest illegal operation conducted by the FBI. Deciphering the secret data about her led to the publication of some of the most terrible actions of employees of the department. According to emerging facts, in the framework of this program, agents were engaged in the deliberate provocation of some civilian groups with the aim of their further elimination. There are also many sources that indicate that Edward Hoover himself, as the head of the FBI, collaborated with the leaders of the Italian-American mafia families. Many U.S. citizens have repeatedly declared illegal wiretapping, tracking Internet traffic. According to some rumors, the FBI wanted to use the Gmail service to control and track letters. To date, there is no reliable information that would confirm the illegal activities of the FBI. Decryption of materials on the involvement of the department in illegal actions was carried out, but the security stamp was not completely removed from them. Thus, it is very difficult to establish the involvement of the department. Perhaps the US government is fully covering this law enforcement structure, the activities of which are in his favor.
FBI Academy
To ensure that the department is constantly replenished with qualified personnel, in 1972 a special FBI Academy was created, located on the basis of the naval forces of the United States.
Training centers are equipped with the latest technology. There is also a purpose-built city that serves as a training ground for practicing the actions of special agents in different situations. This academy offers advanced training courses, as well as training new, “young” agents for the FBI department. Decryption or storage of any secret data is not performed here, since this is a purely training base. Therefore, foreign law enforcement officials are invited to exchange experiences.
Conclusion
So, we examined in detail one of the most important structures in the US law enforcement system - the FBI. Deciphering the abbreviation has given us the opportunity to deal with the functions that this department performs. In general, it should be said that the FBI is the best example of the organization of a federal agency whose jurisdiction extends to the entire state. Other countries with a federal territorial structure should take as an example the United States of America.