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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

CHAPTER

The FBI's Vision of Order and Functioning

The FBI was created in the wake of World War I. The director, James Huber, wanted to professionalize and raise the status of fighting crime. He kept his agents out of the civil service so that he himself had almost total control over their hiring and firing or selection.

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