The White House FBI files controversy of June 1996 arose concerning improper access by the White House to FBI security-clearance documents.

Craig Livingstone, head of the White House Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background report files without asking permission of the subject individuals ; many of these were employees of former Republican administrations.

J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.

FBI files show he was also under investigation for supposed links with Communist groups.

The FBI has generated files on numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Mickey Mantle, and Gene Autry.

He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,

According to Laurence Silberman, appointed Deputy Attorney General in early 1974, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley thought such files either did not exist or had been destroyed.

After the May 1987 Gary Hart – Donna Rice scandal, a questionnaire by The New York Times requested things such as psychiatric records and access to FBI files from all 14 presidential candidates.

In 2003, an incident involving seized Psion PDAs belonging to members of the Red Brigade indicated that neither the Italian police nor the FBI were able to decrypt PGP-encrypted files stored on them.

* FBI files on Spiro Agnew

Deputy Ernest Blunk claimed that Dillinger had escaped using a real pistol, but FBI files make clear that Dillinger carved a fake pistol from a piece of wood.

In Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, historian Ellen Schrecker calls the FBI " the single most important component of the anti-communist crusade " and writes: " Had observers known in the 1950s what they have learned since the 1970s, when the Freedom of Information Act opened the Bureau's files, ' McCarthyism ' would probably be called ' Hooverism.

From 1951 to 1955, the FBI operated a secret " Responsibilities Program " that distributed anonymous documents with evidence from FBI files of Communist affiliations on the part of teachers, lawyers, and others.

The documents were discovered in the FBI files after a Freedom of Information Act search by Professor Jon Wiener, published in Weiner's book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files ( 2000 ), and are discussed in the documentary film The U. S. vs. John Lennon ( 2006 ).

" An Archive of the ( Political ) Unconscious " Canadian Journal of Communication, 26 1 Jan 2001 — analysis of Renoir's FBI files.

* FBI case files

* FBI case files

When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters, including the Whitewater scandal, the White House FBI files controversy, and the White House travel office controversy.

* Rosenberg FBI files ( summary only )

He continued to perform highly incriminating searches of FBI files for his own name and address.

Authorities were satisfied that Ames had no knowledge of the case, as he did not work for the FBI and is not thought to have had access to the case files.

The recommendation of the Department -- as well as the decision of the appeal board -- was based entirely on the local board file, not on an FBI report.

-- The FBI yesterday arrested on a perjury charge one of the members of the jury that failed to reach a verdict in the `` Freedom Rider '' bus burning trial four weeks ago.

* 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord ( CSAL ) in Arkansas

According to FBI director Robert Mueller and the 9 / 11 Commission, Omari entered the United States through a Dubai flight on June 29, 2001, with Salem al-Hazmi, landing in New York.

" I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list ", he said.

He is believed to have moved in with Ziad Jarrah, who got a new apartment on Bougainvilla Dr. in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, after both men gave the landlord photocopies of their German passports, which he later turned over to the FBI.

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

In February 2012 an MI5 file on Chaplin was opened to the public which revealed that the FBI had contacted the British secret service to provide them with information which would enable them to ban Chaplin from the US.

This expansion pack featured levels that were based on real-world locations, such as the White House, the FBI headquarters, the Smithsonian museum, and the Washington Monument and other places in Washington, D. C.

* FBI file on Desi Arnaz

FBI agents and Sheriff's deputies from those counties searched large areas of the mountainous wilderness on foot and by helicopter.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

( TV series ), a 1965-1974 television series based in part on actual FBI cases

According to the Washington Post, the FBI " is building a vast repository controlled by people who work in a top-secret vault on the fourth floor of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington.

Agents in training on the FBI Academy firing range

After potential special agent candidates are cleared with TS clearance and the Form SF-312 non-disclosure agreement is signed, they attend the FBI training facility located on Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

Upon graduation, new FBI Special Agents are placed all around the country and the world, depending on their areas of expertise.

Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the FBI director would directly brief the President of the United States on any issues that arise from within the FBI.

On October 10, the FBI reported the Watergate break-in was only part of a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage on behalf of the Nixon re-election committee.

" However, the February 2006 " Dubious Achievement Awards " used the caption under a photo of W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official revealed in 2005 to be the " Deep Throat " Watergate source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

* G. Gordon Liddy, former FBI Bureau chief, lawyer, Richard Nixon's White House Staff Assistant, key Watergate figure, author, and nationally syndicated radio talk show host.

Colson expressed disapproval in Felt's role in the Watergate scandal, first in the context of Felt being an FBI employee who should have known better than to disclose the results of a government investigation to the press ( violating a fundamental tenet of FBI culture ), and second in the context of the trust placed in him ( which demanded a more active response, such as a face-to-face confrontation with the FBI director or Nixon or, had that failed, public resignation ).

During this time, the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon.

He resigned as FBI director on April 27, 1973, after he admitted to destroying documents received on June 28, 1972, 11 days after the Watergate burglary, that had come from convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt's safe, given to him by White House counsel John Dean.

Gray remained publicly silent about the Watergate scandal for 32 years, speaking to the press only once, at the end of his life and shortly after his second in command at the FBI, Mark Felt, announced that he was the secret source to the Washington Post known as “ Deep Throat ”.

On June 17, 1972, just six weeks after Gray took office at the FBI, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D. C ..

On June 23, 1972, White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and President Nixon held one of the infamous “ smoking gun ” conversations in which they conspired to use the CIA to block the FBI investigation into the money trail leading from the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, which would constitute hard evidence that Committee members were involved in the planning of the burglaries.

Since you ’ ve got these five men under arrest, it will be best to taper the matter off here .” This conversation implicitly stated that the FBI should not interview Manuel Ogarrio and Kenneth Dahlberg, individuals connected with the money used to fund the Watergate burglars.

While not active in any Watergate activities per se, Gray was aware through his dealings with John Dean that the White House was concerned about what might be discovered from a full-field FBI investigation and explored what he could do to limit the investigation or shift it away from the Bureau ’ s jurisdiction.

We were both apprehensive about the meeting as we walked to a park and sat down on a bench overlooking the Potomac, discussing my request to obtain FBI 302s and AirTels on the Watergate investigation.

* In Nixon's Web: Watergate and the FBI

Visits by the U. S. senators from South Dakota, FBI agents and United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) representatives, were attended by widespread media coverage, but the Richard Nixon administration was preoccupied internally with Watergate.

Armed with newspaper articles indicating the White House had possession of FBI Watergate files, the committee chairman, Sam Ervin, questioned Gray as to what he knew about the White House obtaining the files.

In 1980, Katzenbach testified in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the defense of W. Mark Felt, later revealed to be the " Deep Throat " of the Watergate scandal and later Deputy Director of the FBI ; accused and later found guilty of ordering illegal wiretaps on American citizens.

In another case, Alger Hiss, convicted in 1950 on two counts of perjury for lying under oath about having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, filed for a writ of coram nobis in the 1970s, after the FBI released certain records that Hiss argued showed that he had not received a fair trial ( and after Richard Nixon, a leading voice against Hiss on the HUAC committee, was disgraced by the Watergate scandal ).

A precursor to the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair.

On January 28, 1974, Porter pleaded guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI during the early stages of the Watergate investigation.

* W. Mark Felt ( 1940 ), former associate director of the FBI and Watergate scandal informant also known as " Deep Throat "

* L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal