Enemies: A History of the FBI
ISBN: 0812979230
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dmix
· 2015-06-02
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That's not quite accurate, if you read the history of the FBI [1], they have been an intelligence agency as long as they've been a law enforcement one (pre-1950s, when it was called the Bureau of Investigation):
http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812...
They pride themselves in the idea hardly no one in the American public is aware of this fact.
9/11 made them focus their intelligence abilities on terrorism but those capabilities were hardly new to the FBI.
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http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812...