{"slug": "federal-bureau-of-investigation", "label": "Federal Bureau of Investigation", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8333", "qid": "Q8333", "description": "U.S. federal law enforcement agency", "entries": 14, "years": 13, "span": [1887, 2020], "span_label": ["1887 CE", "2020 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Bureau of Investigation", "F.B.I.", "FBI", "FBI agent"], "related": [{"slug": "central-intelligence-agency", "label": "Central Intelligence Agency", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states-congress", "label": "United States Congress", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "richard-nixon", "label": "Richard Nixon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "white-house", "label": "White House", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boeing-727", "label": "Boeing 727", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "luanda", "label": "Luanda", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "India formed the Central Special Branch, now called the Intelligence Bureau (IB). It is India's equivalent to the US's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Intelligence Bureau is said to be the oldest organization of its type.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1245160848#Events", "title": "1887 in India", "revid": 1245160848, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373410903#July", "title": "1908", "revid": 1373410903, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1924, "year_label": "1924 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372136634#May", "title": "1924", "revid": 1372136634, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – Second Red Scare in the United States: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named as Communist Party members in a Federal Bureau of Investigation report.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#June", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 7", "text": "May 7 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#May", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into the Media, Pennsylvania offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and removes all of its files.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#March", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the investigation by the F.B.I. into the Watergate break-ins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#June", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1980, "year_label": "1980 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 2", "text": "February 2 – Abscam: FBI personnel target members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363797378#February", "title": "1980", "revid": 1363797378, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 11", "text": "May 11 – The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#May", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 21", "text": "21 November – Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence analyst who spied for Israeli intelligence, is arrested by the FBI at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington while trying to seek asylum there.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358257464#Events", "title": "1985 in Israel", "revid": 1358257464, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 — A Boeing 727 aircraft is stolen from an airport in Luanda, Angola triggering an international terrorist investigation by the FBI and CIA. The aircraft and its pilots were never found.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371470479#May", "title": "2003", "revid": 1371470479, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 - FBI director Robert Mueller visits Vietnam and Cambodia on a mission to expand legal cooperation. In Phnom Penh, he is to open a new FBI office.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357587021#January", "title": "2008 in Cambodia", "revid": 1357587021, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 2", "text": "June 2 – The FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign amidst an FBI-led corruption investigation, and calls for an extraordinary congress to elect a new president as soon as possible.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#June", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 11", "text": "11 February – Kenya and the FBI sign an anti-terrorist agreement, the first of its kind outside the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370818951#February", "title": "2020 in East Africa", "revid": 1370818951, "section": "Monthly events › February"}}]}