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Legacy
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Cult of Loyalty: Hoover's FBI Transformation
This chapter examines how J. Edgar Hoover's leadership transformed the FBI into a professionalized agency focused on loyalty and image, often at the cost of personal integrity and ethics. Through the lens of seasoned agents facing authoritarian demands, it highlights the oppressive culture at the FBI Training Academy in the 1930s and the Bureau's contrasting achievements in crime-solving.
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