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 ).

* FBI files on Watergate

" 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.

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 ".

* Herbert Philbrick, Boston ad executive ; noted Cold War citizen spy for the FBI

US Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had " exaggerated things " according to the FBI.

US Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had " exaggerated things " according to the FBI.

They noted that Joseph Hansen had met FBI agents numerous times over a number of months in 1940 to give them information about Stalinists in the US alleged to have participated in the assassination of Trotsky, and claimed that this was done without the knowledge of the Trotskyist movement.

FBI Special Agent Condon noted in his log in September, 1973, that Bulger and Nee had been heavily shaking down the neighborhood's bookmakers and loansharks.

US Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had " exaggerated things " according to the FBI.

In rationalizing their monitoring activities, the NYPD noted they followed the same rules as the FBI.

Pressler is noted for being possibly the only member of Congress to flatly refuse to take a bribe from undercover FBI agents and then to report the bribe attempt to the FBI during the Abscam investigations in 1980.

Even before Oppenheimer was chosen to be the lead scientist of the Manhattan Project, he was under surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), and once selected, the surveillance was intense ; every single phone call was recorded and every contact with another person noted.

Another FBI memo dated five months later noted that the Bureau was constantly considering counterintelligence measures designed to neutralize Pratt " as an effective ( Panther ) functionary.

Other information in the FBI files noted a May 19, 1945 " newspapermen's forum " titled " The Free Press " held at the California Labor School in which Sevareid participated.

) noted the absurdity of having the FBI investigate legislators who are investigating the FBI.

The report noted, however, that the US government scientists interviewed who had conducted research on brain fingerprinting were convinced that it would be useful in FBI investigations.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) believed the Republic of New Afrika to be a seditious group and conducted raids on its meetings, which led to violent confrontations, and the arrest and repeated imprisonment of RNA leaders noted above.

Fans and critics noted connections between the lyrics of " Mesías " and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, resulting in an FBI investigation.

" The song became a subject of some controversy when fans and critics noted connections between its theme and the attacks of September 2001, months after the song's release, which resulted in the FBI investigating Arjona.

It depicts a right-wing reactionary, who plans to, among other things, " assassinate the President and take over the government " ( perhaps impervious to sarcasm, the FBI noted the song Ochs ' lengthy FBI file ).

In his final report, Elmer Davis noted that he had fired 35 employees, because of past Communist associations, though the FBI files showed no formal allegiance to the CPUSA.

" Crowther noted that " so abundant the breathless events that one might forget, in the hubbub, that there is no logic in this wild-goose chase ;" he also questioned the " casual presentation of the FBI as a bunch of bungling dolts, film's general disregard of authorized agents, and slur on the navy yard police ", all of which " somewhat vitiates the patriotic implications which they have tried to emphasize in the film.

The Final Report of the U. S. Office of the Independent Counsel report noted that " Willey gave false information to the FBI about her sexual relationship with a former boyfriend, and acknowledged having lied about it when the agents confronted her with contradictory evidence.