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Donald Trump with his brother Robert in Atlantic City in 1990. The FBI’s role in the election that gave Donald Trump the presidency has been a matter of partisan contention for months.
This memo is celebrated as the official birth of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—known throughout the world today as the FBI. The chain of events was set in motion in 1906, when Roosevelt appointed a likeminded reformer named Charles Bonaparte as his second Attorney General.
By the 1930s, IOs were sent to police stations around the nation, enlisting the eyes of the public in the search for fugitives. In 1950, building on the “wanted posters” concept, the FBI created its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.
But what’s not widely known is that the next president has a history with the FBI that goes back more than three decades. According to a 1981 FBI memo, Trump offered to “fully cooperate” with the bureau, proposing that FBI agents work undercover in a casino he was considering opening in Atlantic City.
Because of his unique qualifications he was assigned to work border cases and to conduct liaison with various Mexican informants and officials.
In Brooklyn, a nine-year-old Al Capone would soon start his life of crime. In Indianapolis, a five-year-old John Dillinger was growing up on his family farm. And in Chicago, a young child christened Lester Joseph Gillis—later to morph into the vicious killer “Baby Face” Nelson—would greet the world by year’s end.
The story is told, for example, of a Philadelphia agent who was for years allowed to split time between doing his job and tending his cranberry bog.
but also Canada and Europe (and later worldwide). The IO evolved into a standard 8x8 size, and the Bureau soon added to them fingerprints (thanks to its growing national repository), criminal records, and other background information.
The anarchists, in a sense, were the first modern-day terrorists—banding together in small, isolated groups around the world; motivated by ideology; bent on bringing down the governments they hated. But they would, ironically, hasten into being the first force of federal agents that would later become the FBI.
Call it Czolgosz’s folly, because this new President was a staunch advocate of the rising “Progressive Movement.”. Many progressives, including Roosevelt, believed that the federal government’s guiding hand was necessary to foster justice in an industrial society.
He resigned on September 4, 1926. Less than two years later this grand old gentleman died and was buried in Los Angeles.