Summary
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, a branch of the Department of Justice, was founded in 1908, during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, as an investigative agency working against the trusts and monopolies of that time. Some eighty years after its founding, and now under its eighth director, the FBI still maintains the extraordinary purpose of fighting crime and subversion with 'Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity' as J. Edgar Hoover intended.