The complete idiot's guide to the FBI
By: by John Simeone and David Jacobs.
Contributors: Jacobs, David.
Publisher: Alpha
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History.; Criminal investigation -- United States -- History.
Other titles: Guide to the FBI; FBI
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The director. Today's FBI ; Origins of the Bureau ; J. Edgar Hoover: America's top cop ; Busting the gangs ; Nazis and Reds ; World War II: the big one; title: Pt. 2. National security. FBI, CIA, and Moscow center ; Atom spies, double agents, and subversives ; The Mob ; Coming apart: the 1960s ; Civil rights and wrongs ; Death of a legend; title: Pt. 3. Cold War climax. Line of succession ; New brooms: the chief and the judge ; Global crime ; Year of the spy ; Nightmover: FBI versus the supermole; title: Pt. 4. New world order. Judgment calls ; American psychos ; Wen Ho Lee: phantom menace ; The enemy within: Robert P. Hanssen ; 9/11 and beyond; title: Appendixes. A. Joining the FBI ; B. Glossary ; C. Booking the Bureau: further reading.