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In 1900, William McKinley, our 25th President, faced several serious problems... Anarchists, who wanted to bring down the government, and increasing crime. In his second term he was assassinated by an Anarchist and his Vice-president, Theodore Roosevelt, former Governor of New York, became President.
Rosevelt was a strong believer in laws and their enforcement. He appointed Charles Bonaparte, a man of like beliefs, as US Attorney General. Bonaparte soon .discovered he had very few men to carry-out the investigations his job required. He solved the problem by “borrowing” well -trained, men from the Secret Service. This was very expensive, and these men made their reports to their boss, leaving Bonaparte in the dark.
When Congress decided there was no law authorizing this expenditure they canceled the funds After a long and complicated session with Congress an agreement was reached, and funds were made available for the Attorney General to form an investigative force of his own.
The year was 1908. and considered the year the fledgling FBI was born in the form of the Bureau of Investigation. It operated under. this name (((or BOI), for a number of years then changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation–the FBI.
From a beginning work force of about forty, it has grown to 35,000 including over 10,000 special agents and others with special knowledge and talents.
