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May 15, 2025
Scottish Cairn in Memory of Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103 Attack Victims
A Scottish cairn in memory of the 270 killed in the Lockerbie Pan Am flight 103 bombing attack.
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April 29, 2025
The United States Attorney’s Office filed a civil forfeiture action against a U.S. Springfield Model 1868 Style Trapdoor Saddle Ring Carbine.
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April 23, 2025
The Ames Stradivarius shortly after it entered FBI custody in 2015 after 35 years.
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April 22, 2025
Betty Grable Extortion Letters 6
Closing in on the criminal, Russell Eugene Alexanderson, as he tries to make a break for it
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April 22, 2025
Betty Grable Extortion Letters 5
Recording Russell Eugene Alexanderson leaning on the cemetery wall
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April 22, 2025
Betty Grable Extortion Letters 4
Covering the scene with powerful binoculars and portable radios
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April 22, 2025
Betty Grable Extortion Letters 2
Capturing the action on a 16mm camera with a telephoto lens
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April 22, 2025
Betty Grable Extortion Letters 3
Getting ready to toss the "pay-off package" from the Bureau's blue sedan
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November 12, 2024
CJIS Division Observes a Milestone
The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division was created 25 years ago as the central repository for all criminal justice information services within the Bureau.
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August 2, 2024
Inside the FBI Podcast: Investigating Assassination Attempts
On this episode of our podcast, we'll discuss why the FBI investigates assassination attempts and the Bureau’s history of handling these kinds of cases.
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July 26, 2024
Inside the FBI Podcast: 116 Years of Service
On this episode of our podcast—and in celebration of the FBI's 116th birthday—we'll share 16 facts you might not know about the Bureau.
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July 10, 2024
Director Wray Remarks About 100 Years of FBI Fingerprints
Director Wray spoke at a July 10, 2024, event at the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, marking 100 years of fingerprints and criminal history records at the FBI.
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July 10, 2024
FBI Marks 100 Years of Fingerprints and Criminal History Records
Director Wray joined FBI staff, lawmakers, and dozens of retired fingerprint examiners to celebrate 100 years since the Bureau established its Identification Division in 1924.
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July 10, 2024
Director Wray's Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the FBI’s Fingerprint Program
FBI Director Christopher Wray's remarks at the 100th anniversary of the FBI’s fingerprint program at the Bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on July 10, 2024
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July 8, 2024
This sign was displayed at the 1975 opening of the new FBI tour—at the then-new FBI Headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building—and in use for some time after that.
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July 8, 2024
Wooden index card file boxes like this were used throughout the FBI (and federal government overall) to store various sets of index cards. The set in this box came from the Latent Fingerprint Section of the FBI Laboratory and contained copies of latent fingerprints taken from various bank robbery cases.
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May 9, 2024
The FBI Wall of Honor remembers Special Agent Marvin Risen, who died in a plane crash near Centreville, TN, on October 15, 1943.
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March 4, 2024
X post on 1996 Mac desktop computer
The 1986 Macintosh Plus was one of the first computers with a graphical user interface (GUI). #FBI Laboratory professionals used it to create crime scene drawings. Since the days of cassette tapes and floppy disks, they continue to leverage new technology to protect the country.
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January 8, 2024
The FBI Story is our chronicle of a year in the life of the Bureau, as told through articles featured on our public website.
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December 22, 2023
Inside the FBI Podcast: Pan Am Flight 103
It’s been 35 years since the tragic aircraft bombing on December 21, 1988. In this episode, we’ll look back on one of the largest and most complex acts of international terrorism ever investigated by the FBI.
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December 12, 2023
The FBI's SWAT program began in a handful of field offices in 1973 to better prepare agents for tactical responses. Today's modern SWAT is the largest tactical force in the country.
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November 27, 2023
SWAT operators (highlighted from left) Roger DePue, Ken Parkerson, Jim Horn, Tase Bailey, Jim Huggins, and D. Michael Griffith in 1973. The six members attended a Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI event last summer in Lexington, Kentucky.
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November 27, 2023
SWAT operators Tase Bailey, Roger DePue, Jim Huggins, Jim Horn, and Ken Parkerson during a Society of Former Agents of the FBI gathering in 2023 in Lexington, Kentucky. The first SWAT teams called themselves Spider One.
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October 23, 2023
Osage Discussion Spotlights Relationship Between FBI and Native Americans
The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Oklahoma City Field Office joined local Native American leaders and the author of a best-selling book about murders on the Osage Nation a century ago for a panel discussion in Oklahoma.
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October 13, 2023
Inside the FBI Podcast: The Osage Murders
On this episode of Inside the FBI, learn about the Osage family that was targeted in a deadly conspiracy and how a young Bureau of Investigation searched for answers.
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April 13, 2023
On April 15, 2013, as runners from around the world were cheered by thousands of spectators lining the streets for the 117th Boston Marathon, two self-radicalized brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, executed the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. They detonated two powerful explosives near the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 500 others.
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November 28, 2022
The FBI Wall of Honor remembers Supervisory Special Agent Thomas J. Mohnal, who died on February 10, 2021, from health complications associated with exposure to toxic air during 9/11 recovery efforts.
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November 28, 2022
The FBI Wall of Honor remembers Special Agent Jimmie John Daniels, who died on February 1, 2021, following surgery for a right Achilles tendon rupture that he suffered during a tactical training exercise in Phoenix, Arizona.
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July 21, 2022
Events Mark the 50th Anniversary of Female Special Agents in the FBI
Events at the Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and FBI Headquarters in D.C. brought together some of the Bureau's first female agents with current executives and new agents in training to mark 50 years of female special agents in the FBI.
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July 11, 2022
Retired Special Agent Paula Smith and her brother, Steve, a former NASA astronaut, share the story of how the FBI flag made it to space.
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July 5, 2022
The only FBI flag flown in space celebrates its 25th anniversary. The flag hangs in the Director’s corridor in HQ. It flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-82, in February 1997. The flag measures 53" long by 66" wide.
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July 5, 2022
Paula Smith with her parents at her FBI swearing-in ceremony.
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July 5, 2022
FBI Flag in Space Signature and Seal
A seal from the space flight is attached to the FBI flag with autographs from each astronaut. Steve’s signature is on the far left. Every space flight has its own uniquely designed seal.
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July 5, 2022
FBI Flag in Space Certificate of Authenticity
Two framed collages from the flight accompany a certificate of authenticity for the flag. Included is a U.S. flag patch that was also flown aboard STS-82.
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June 16, 2022
A history of our international offices—or legal attachés—since 1940.
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May 13, 2022
Osama (or Usama) bin Laden, former head of al Qaeda and architect of the 9/11 attacks.
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May 9, 2022
Alcatraz booking photo of Harmon Metz Waley, who pleaded guilty to kidnapping George Weyerhaeuser in Tacoma, Washington, in 1935.
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May 9, 2022
Contents of a box recovered from the spot where it was buried on a beach south of Jacksonville, Florida, showing electric blasting caps, pen and pencil delay mechanisms, detonators, ampoules of acid, and other time delay devices.
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May 9, 2022
Three of the Nazi saboteurs, including John Kerling, Werner Thiel, and Herbert Hans Haupt.
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May 9, 2022
Four of the Nazi saboteurs, including George Dasch, Ernest Burger, Heinrich Heinck, and Richard Quirin.
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May 9, 2022
Agent Digs Where Nazi Saboteurs Buried Cache
A special agent digs at spot in Ponte Vedra, Florida, where Nazi saboteur Kerling identified spot where his team had buried their sabotage equipment and uniforms in 1942. Kerling and another special agent look on.
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May 9, 2022
The special seven-man military commission opens the third day of its proceedings in the trial of eight Nazi saboteurs in the fifth floor courtroom of the Department of Justice building in July 1942. Sitting on the commission left to right are: Brigadier General John T. Lewis; Major General Lorenzo D. Casser; Major General Walter S. Grant; Major General Frank R. McCoy, president of the commission; Major General Blanton Winship; Brigadier General Guy V. Henry; and Brigadier General John T. Kennedy. All eight were found guilty. Library of Congress photograph.
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May 9, 2022
1993 World Trade Center Bombing
Investigators going through the rubble following the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.
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May 9, 2022
1993 World Trade Center Bombing Conspirators
Conspirators in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, including Ramzi Yousef, Mohammad Salameh, Abdul Yasin, Mahmoud Abouhalima, Ahmed Ajaj, Nidal Ayyad, and Eyad Ismoil.
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May 9, 2022
Mugshot of spy Ronald William Pelton, NSA employee, during the era known as "The Year of the Spy."
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May 9, 2022
Mug shot of Larry Wu-tai Chin, Chinese language translator/intelligence officer for CIA, arrested on November 22, 1985 and convicted for passing classified secrets, documents, and reports to the Chinese during the so-called "Year of the Spy."
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