FBI Top Ten List Hits 59th Anniversary


March 13, 2009

The first FBI’s Top Ten list was in March of 1950 and has featured some really bad people over the years…


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Mr. Schiff: The first FBI’s Top Ten list was in March of  1950 and has featured some really bad people over the years…

Mr. Bryant: "Probably the most prominent is Usama Bin Laden.  Besides him, Ramzi Yousef who was wanted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Mir Aimal Kansi, who was wanted for the killing of two CIA employees outside CIA headquarters back in 1993.”

Mr. Schiff: Brad Bryant, Special Agent and Chief of the FBI’s Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Unit in Washington…

Mr. Bryant: "Willie Sutton was on the list.  Willie was a notorious bank robber.  When asked why he robs banks, his response was, ‘well that’s where the money is.’ ”

Mr. Schiff: There have been 491 fugitives on the Top Ten list.  Bryant says 460 have been caught or located and says the list is a big help…

Mr. Bryant: "Not only nationally but internationally.  Forty of our captures have been in countries outside of the United States.”

Mr. Schiff: See the FBI’s Top Ten wanted flyers on the Internet at www.fbi.gov.  I’m Neal Schiff of the Bureau and that’s what’s happening at the “FBI, This Week.”

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