Short for Federal Bureau of Investigation according to Abbreviationfinder, FBI is the main investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice, and its missions include upholding the law; investigate criminal violations at the federal level; protect the United States from foreign intelligence actions and terrorist activities; provide law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies.
However, the inventory of actions undertaken by the FBI to promote terrorist activities and combat fighters against terrorism is copious.
History
Origin
The 26 of July of 1908, initiatives of the then Attorney General Charles Bonaparte and with the approval of the United States Congress, was created Bureau of Investigation (BOI) under the Department of Justice and composed of nine detectives, 13 researchers and 12 accountants.
The BOI, shortly after the FBI, was created with the objective of initially investigating civil rights issues and cases of fraud and violations of antitrust trade laws. They had a special interest in the arbitrary distribution and occupation of land by people with “a sense of morality and the law somewhat dissipated.” A good number of politicians were involved in these investigations, including mayors, governors and even parliamentarians of the United States.
Early years
The FBI began the expansion of the jurisdiction in June of 1910 to the proclamation of the Mann Act [2] which established a federal crime to transport women from one state to another for ” immoral purposes “, or what is now known as sexual or trafficking slavery be human beings. This law also gave the federal government powers to investigate criminals who violated state laws, even if they had not violated federal laws.
The number of special agents increased to more than 300, also being supplemented by another 300 employees as support personnel. [3] The local offices of the FBI were created in the main cities of the country, each of which was in charge of a special agent, who was responsible to the Washington headquarters. Many offices were installed in cities near the Mexican border, to control contraband, violations of neutrality and intelligence operations.
The Bureau was achieving notable results in the fight against organized crime, gangsterism, the sale and importation of alcoholic beverages, circumventing the “dry” law and other criminal activities. Linked to counterintelligence work since 1917, during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, he made this activity one of his high priority tasks. [4]
John edgar hoover
From the October of maypole of 1924 and for almost 50 years, John Edgar Hoover passes to lead the FBI. [5] Hoover turned the FBI into an instrument of political persecution, focusing his special attention on progressive forces and the North American Communists, counting on the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the disputed Smith Act of 1940, to carry out a All-out war based on detractions, invention of conspiracies and blatant violation of constitutionality. [6]
To do this, as well as fulfill the search missions for German, Italian and Japanese spies, it increased its staff to 13,000 agents in 1943. Through the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), created in 1940, the Bureau extended its counterintelligence efforts throughout Latin America. [7]
The G-Men
In the mid- 1930s, the FBI created the National Identification and Information Division that compiled crime statistics from across the country for criminal intelligence purposes.
The fight against organized crime and the most violent gangs surrounded the G-Men (government men) with a wave of romanticism and heroism, who neutralized a good part of the so-called “public enemies” related to gangsters of the time.
Present
Nowadays, the amorality that the FBI displays in the fight against terrorism has been noted. The World Socialist Web denounced the August 18of the 2004 that the FBI has implemented comprehensive plans and long range to intimidate and attack the opponents of the war policy of the government of W. Bush.
In anticipation of the Democratic National Convention, held in Boston earlier that month, and the impending Republican Party convention in New York City, the FBI’s Joint Counter-Terrorism Task Force [JTTF] mobilized its agents to spy on, interrogate and threaten anti-war protesters, and even interfere with their activities to render them obsolete.
In full violation of basic and constitutional democratic rights, the JTTF kept under surveillance and in several cases has questioned dozens of people in at least six states about their actions and opinions against the war. The JTTF visited the homes and workplaces of war opponents, as well as friends and relatives. In none of the cases was there evidence of criminal activity – neither perpetrated nor calculated – by the individuals in question.
Role regarding Cuba
The inventory of actions taken by the FBI to promote terrorist activities and combat counter-terrorism fighters is copious.
Hundreds of individuals with a long terrorist history walk the streets of cities like New Jersey, New York and Miami with impunity, under the protection of the FBI, whose bosses ignore their past and even share moments of pleasure with them as Héctor Pesquera repeatedly did. and Jonathan I. Salomón, former officers in charge of the FBI in Miami.
One of the events in which the tolerance of the FBI is shown was manifested during the process followed against the perpetrators of the blowing up of a Cuban civilian plane in mid-flight on October 6, 1976 off the coast of Barbados.
