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.

After two FBI agents showed up at his home, he understood that " their interest lay not in the letters but in me.

FBI agents, state troopers, sheriff's deputies, and Reno police surrounded the jet, as it had not yet been determined with certainty that Cooper was no longer aboard ; but an armed search quickly confirmed that he was gone.

Aboard the airliner FBI agents recovered 66 unidentified latent fingerprints, Cooper's black clip-on tie and mother of pearl tie clip, and two of the four parachutes, one of which had been opened and two shroud lines cut from its canopy.

Local police and FBI agents immediately began questioning possible suspects.

FBI agents, pushing a sled out of the open airstair, were able to reproduce the upward motion of the tail section described by the flight crew at 8: 13 pm.

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

It is also where new agents are sent for training to become FBI Special Agents.

The Officer Down Memorial Page provides the biographies of 58 FBI agents killed in the line of duty from 1925 to 2011.

The director also is in charge of making sure the leadership in any one of the FBI field offices are manned with qualified agents.

New agents are issued their firearm with which they qualify, upon successful completion of their training at the FBI Academy.

* 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

* 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

* 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.

* 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, " Public Enemy No. 1 " John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

Hoover was noted as sometimes being capricious in his leadership ; he frequently fired FBI agents, singling out those who he thought " looked stupid like truck drivers " or he considered to be " pinheads ".

Melvin Purvis was a prime example ; he was one of the most effective agents in capturing and breaking up 1930s gangs and received substantial public recognition, but a jealous Hoover maneuvered him out of the FBI.

In late July 1934, Special Agent Melvin Purvis, the Director of Operations in the Chicago office, received a tip on Dillinger's whereabouts which paid off when Dillinger was located, ambushed and killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater.

Category: People convicted of murdering FBI agents

According to the Justice Department, " There has been no policy change nor blanket instruction for FBI agents to Mirandize detainees overseas.

While there have been specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas at both Bagram and in other situations, in order to preserve the quality of evidence obtained, there has been no overall policy change with respect to detainees.

Over the next three years, Whitacre worked with FBI agents to collect information and record conversations with both ADM executives and its competitors.

The Informant details Whitacre's bizarre behavior, including Whitacre cracking under pressure, increasing his mania, telling the media that FBI agents tried to force him to destroy tapes ( a story that Whitacre later recanted ), and attempting suicide.

Appeals for Whitacre's full pardon or clemency to the White House are supported by several current and former justice department officials: Dean Paisley, a retired 25-year veteran and former FBI supervisor on the price-fixing case ; two other FBI agents involved with the case ; a former Attorney General of the United States ; one of the former Asst.

At 8: 45 a. m on April 11, 1986, a team of FBI agents led by Special Agent Gordon McNeill assembled at a Home Depot to initiate a rolling stakeout searching for the black Monte Carlo ( Collazo's stolen car ).

Vincent has taken the place of the FBI snipers ( who are shown lying unconscious or dead behind him ), and he begins firing at the assembled police and agents.

The aircraft circled Puget Sound for approximately two hours to allow Seattle police and the FBI time to collect Cooper ’ s parachutes and ransom money ( and mobilize emergency personnel ).

In fact, Condon, after seeing Hauptmann in a lineup at New York Police Department Greenwich Street Station told FBI Special Agent Turrou that Hauptmann was not " John "-the man to whom Condon claimed he passed the ransom money to in St. Raymond's Cemetery.

Lee arrives and rescues Carter, and they are met outside by the FBI, led by Russ, who blames them for ruining the ransom exchange.

Lee then takes the vest and pursues Griffin ( who is carrying a baggage of the ransom with him while getting up to the top of the building to await for a helicopter escape ) while Carter shoots Sang dead in a gunfight as Sang attempts to collect more of the ransom and kill one of the FBI agents.

Tom agrees to the FBI instructions for delivering the ransom.

The subsequent investigation by the FBI employed the first attempt at raising latent fingerprints from paper ransom notes ..

The FBI believes Mike Devine and Charley Chakely took the ransom money, hiring and later murdering the pilot from Florida.

A few years into the price-fixing investigation, Whitacre confessed to his FBI handlers that he had been involved with corporate kickbacks and money laundering at ADM. Whitacre was later convicted of embezzling US $ 9 million ; some of this criminal activity occurred during the time he was cooperating with the FBI.

The FBI suspects that the yakuza use various operations to launder money in the U. S.

One of the large financial institutions that he was able to use to launder money was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) which was shut down at the end of the Cold War by the FBI.

On June 3, 1996, the FBI warned White House National Security Council aide Rand Beers that the People's Republic of China might be trying to funnel money into U. S. Congressional campaigns.

At the time, the FBI believed he left behind over $ 300 million in hidden bank accounts, but they never found any money.

Messick, the FBI and legendary District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau all believed Lansky had kept large sums of money in other people's names for decades and that keeping very little in his own was nothing new to him.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

The FBI launched a money-laundering investigation under the assumption that the JDL was extorting money from Ruthless Records to fight their causes.

Hanssen never indicated any political or ideological motive for his activities, telling the FBI after he was caught that his only motivation was the money.

He came to New York and the FBI offered him a large sum of money if he would give the name of the mole.

FBI employees posed as Kraim Abdul Rahman, a fictional Middle Eastern sheikh, in videotaped talks with government officials, where they offered money in return for political favors to a non-existent sheikh.

Abscam was also mentioned in the film Donnie Brasco, when an agent suggests that a boat used in the operation be used undercover to impress Mafia kingpin Santo Trafficante, Jr .. A 1981 Bloom County comic strip in which Milo Bloom envisions himself as a senator on trial has him accused of ( among many things ) " taking money from FBI agents posing as Arab camel scalpers ".

McKevitt appealed his convictions to the Court of Criminal Appeal, arguing that Rupert's testimony was unreliable since he had been paid large sums of money for his role as an informant ( a total of £ 750, 000 from the FBI and MI5 ), and because of Rupert's long criminal record.

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.

According to the FBI terrorism consultant Evan Kohlmann, parts of the money used to finance the bombings came from people connected to the Brandbergen Mosque in Haninge, Sweden.

Robert G. Wright, Jr. is an FBI agent who has criticized the FBI's counterterrorist activities in the 1990s, when he worked in the Chicago division on terrorists with links to the Middle East, especially on the issue of money laundering.

Chams owned a Kwik-Check convenience store in Venice, Florida, where the biggest overseas money transfer to the 9 / 11 terrorists ($ 70, 000 from the UAE ) was sent, according to the testimony of FBI agents during the 9 / 11 Commission hearings.

The FBI was also notified of large amounts of money that Hasan had wired to charities in Pakistan, but the FBI determined that the money " went to people not related to terrorism ," On November 9, 2009, the FBI said that investigators believed Hasan had apparently acted alone.