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 assembled the ransom money from several Seattle-area banks — 10, 000 unmarked 20-dollar bills, many with serial numbers beginning with the letter " L " indicating issuance by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, most carrying a " Series 1969-C " designation — and made a microfilm photograph of each of them.

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.

The services of the FBI Laboratory are used by many state, local, and international agencies free of charge.

FBI provides these tools of sophisticated identification and information services to local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies.

The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin is published monthly by the FBI Law Enforcement Communication Unit, with articles of interest to state and local law enforcement personnel.

Kennedy oversaw 900 federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel including 300 FBI agents, 200 officers from the Oklahoma City Police Department, 125 members of the Oklahoma National Guard, and 55 officers from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.

Scott and his brother have produced CBS series Numb3rs ( 2005 – 2010 ), a crime drama about a genius mathematician who helps the FBI solve crimes, and The Good Wife ( 2009 –), a legal drama about an attorney balancing her job with her husband, a former state attorney trying to rebuild his political career after a major scandal.

The British-born outdoorsman is the only known case, and the FBI, HHS, and CDC state that there is no evidence to support that this would be an act of bioterrorism ( he dies later that day ).

Because the FBI had no jurisdiction in a state murder case, they attempted to keep Bolton ’ s revelations confidential, until the Chicago American newspaper somehow got their hands on a second-hand version of the bank robber ’ s confession.

The Torch Run involves police chiefs, police officers, secret service, FBI agents, military police, sheriffs, state troopers, prison guards, and other law enforcement personnel.

Later in the 1960s, as a result of Zinn ’ s campaigning against the Vietnam War and his influence on Martin Luther King, the FBI designated Zinn a high security risk to the country, a category that allowed them to summarily arrest him if a state of emergency were to be declared.

On the afternoon of June 11, 2005, more than 100 federal and state agents, led by the FBI and supported by snipers and helicopters, raided and closed a large cock fighting ring in Cocke County.

After three days of what was termed the largest manhunt in Northern Michigan history, involving the FBI and local and state authorities, the gunman was captured south of the town.

Bill Williams, an FBI agent in Natchez for two years during that time said in a 2005 interview that the " race wars in the area are ' a story never told ,' that Natchez in 1964 had become the ' focal point for racial, anti-civil rights activity for the state for the next several years '.

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime drama film loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U. S. state of Mississippi in 1964.

The statement made by " Mayor Tilman " to the FBI agents is paraphrased from a quote by U. S. Senator James Eastland, who reportedly said that when the three civil rights workers ( Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman ) went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, " the incident is a hoax and there is no Ku Klux Klan in the state ; the three have gone to Chicago ", and that it was staged by the three young men to call attention to their cause.

On September 6, 2007, The FBI arrested five members of the Pleasantville school board as part of a federal corruption case that included several state lawmakers and other public officials.

CAIR has conducted diversity / sensitivity training on Islam and Muslims for the FBI, US Armed Forces, several local and state law enforcement agencies, and many U. S. corporations.

Since 1935, the FBI served as a data clearinghouse ; organizing, collecting, and disseminating information voluntarily submitted by local, state, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies.

If there are no additional state restrictions, a firearm may be transferred to an individual upon approval by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System ( NICS ) maintained by the FBI.

In 1983, Mabus was elected state auditor and served from 1984 to 1988, during which time he participated in a large FBI sting operation which recovered millions in misspent or stolen public funds.

The letter enclosed a copy of the report, and stated that the report “... does not represent the final and official opinion of the Office of Naval Intelligence .” Only two years after the " internment " did the FCC and FBI officially state they had found no evidence of collaborationist radio transmissions by Japanese Americans being sent from the West Coast, but they did find some evidence of such illicit radio transmissions from Hawaii.

Yet an October 2010 Washington Post article quoted an anonymous senior ICE official asserting: “ Secure Communities is not based on state or local cooperation in federal law enforcement … State and local law enforcement agencies are going to continue to fingerprint people and those fingerprints are forwarded to FBI for criminal checks.

In 1967, Rockefeller named an FBI agent, Lynn A. Davis, to head the state police with orders to halt illegal gambling in Hot Springs.

The FBI and local police used this state of things to further suppress both groups driving Us members and Panthers underground and in exile and putting them in prison under questionable circumstances.