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.

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.

According to Carol Rosenberg, writing for the Miami Herald, Camp X-Ray was visited by a court-ordered forensic FBI team in November 2009.

On his weekly visits back to FBI headquarters he frequently visited Johnie Sullivan, Chief of the National Security Division's ( NSD ) Intelligence Information Services ( IIS ) Unit.

In 2010, at least 12 brigade participants were visited by FBI agents, but were left in peace when they declined to be interviewed.

Slim takes Gracie to Seattle, to meet her ex-boyfriend Joe, but they are visited by a couple of Mitch's friends, disguised as FBI agents investigating a kidnapping, and then to San Francisco to see her grandfather, ( Slim's estranged father ), since she knows they both are in perilous danger.

In 1945, while home alone with her infant brother, Ben, an FBI agent visited the home.

This is almost impossible unless the prospective defendant has publicly stated that he knew he was required to register or report for induction, or unless he has been visited by the FBI, personally served with notice to register or report for induction, and given another chance to comply.

In pursuit of Bulger, a known book lover, the FBI visited bookstores in the area, questioned employees, and distributed wanted posters.

FBI agents visited his parents to confirm his identity on 31 March 2004, but he was not immediately released.

In June 1986 he was visited by Los Angeles Police Officer Steven Takeshita and FBI Agent Nellie Magdaloyo.

For example, the New York Times report of Barkley's speech said that the FBI reported that " there is not the ' slightest foundation ' for charges that Senator Walsh, 69-year-old chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, visited a ' house of degradation ' in Brooklyn and was seen talking to Nazi agents there.

On March 19, 2003, Faris was visited by two FBI agents and an anti-terror officer, who confronted him with testimony from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and the results of an intercepted telephone call.

An FBI summary reported that Jaffe visited the Soviet consulate in New York and that two days after a meeting with Service Jaffe had a four-hour meeting in his home with Communist Party Secretary Earl Browder and Tung Pi-wu, the Chinese Communist representative to the United Nations Charter Conference.

During this time, the FBI had intensified its efforts against the Gambino family, and in August 1983, three members of Gotti's crew – Angelo Ruggiero, John Carneglia, and Gene Gotti – were indicted for heroin trafficking.

Many Italian-American mobsters distrusted the Zips, as Bonanno soldier Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero explained in a conversation to undercover FBI agent Joseph " Donnie Brasco " Pistone: " Lots of people hate him ...

A notable parallel occurs when Ruggiero is summoned to what he knows will be his execution for allowing Pistone into the Mafia ( in reality, Ruggiero was arrested by the FBI ).

It is around this time that an FBI bug in the home of Gambino family soldier Angelo Ruggiero picked up a conversation between Angelo and Gene Gotti, a brother of John Gotti.

Around the time Ruggiero became a member of the Bonanno family, he met Mafia associate " Donnie Brasco " ( undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone ).

However, the friendships Pistone developed with Mirra and Ruggiero gave the FBI the chance to infiltrate the Mafia.

Ruggiero and Brasco were in a Miami Beach, Florida restaurant as Ruggiero read a Time magazine containing an article about the infamous Abscam scandal and detailing how FBI agents posed as rich Arab businessmen to catch U. S. Congressmen taking bribes.

Fortunately for Brasco, he convinced Ruggiero that he did not know the boat's owner was related to the FBI.

On August 30, 1981, the FBI intercepted Ruggiero as he was going to a meeting at Marangello's social club and placed Ruggiero under protective custody.

After the FBI put Ruggiero in protective custody, they tried several times to persuade him to become a government witness and join the Witness Protection Program.

However, Ruggiero refused to cooperate with the FBI and even tried to bail himself out of jail.

Ruggiero could not believe that Donnie Brasco was a special agent in the FBI and not his partner in the Mafia.

In reality, the FBI picked Ruggiero up before the Mob could kill him.