COINTELPRO went all in on dismantling the Black Panther Party, using infiltration, false arrests, and constant surveillance ...

Roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” Hoover’s ...

America was born cutting a king down to size. I don’t want to trivialize that impulse 249 years later. It’s America’s birthright.

Three converging events in the 1970s – the Watergate scandal, the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and ...

Recent developments involving the agency have sparked comparisons to earlier episodes in the agency’s history.

Before long, McCarthy's calls for new FBI leadership were cataloged and commented upon by FBI officials in a nearly 500-page file, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information ...

It's one of the most shocking chapters in the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." How the U.S. government wire-tapped his phones and bugged hotel rooms where he stayed. It was all an attempt ...

"The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals ...

The move was classic James Comey. The former director of the FBI was due at a courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, at 10 a.m.

Few people hated the looks of the Washington headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation more than the man it was named after. J. Edgar Hoover “thought the architecture of that particular ...

In the early 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation considered it pertinent biographical information that The New York Times' Tom Wicker suffered from “mental halitosis.” Since this is not, ...