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  1. of the US Department of Justice that
  2. investigates violations of federal law not
  3. specifically assigned to other agencies,
  4. being particularly concerned with internal
  5. security. The FBI was established 1908 and
  6. built up a position of powerful autonomy
  7. during the autocratic directorship of J Edgar
  8. Hoover 1924-72. Field divisions are
  9. maintained in more than 60 US cities. The
  10. FBI's special agents are qualified in law,
  11. accounting, or auditing. In 1964 the agency
  12. was criticized by the Warren Commission
  13. concerning the assassination of President
  14. Kennedy, and in 1973 L Patrick Gray, the
  15. acting director, resigned when it was
  16. revealed that he had destroyed relevant
  17. material in the Watergate investigation.
  18. Through the Freedom of Information Act it
  19. became known that the FBI had kept files on
  20. many eminent citizens and that Hoover had
  21. abused his power, for example in persecuting
  22. the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King.
  23. Clarence M Kelley was director 1973-78,
  24. William Webster 1978-87, and Judge William
  25. Sessions from 1987.
  26.