The History Channel listed 10 fascinating facts about the FBI. Here are five of them.
1. J. Edgar Hoover served 48 years as director of the FBI, spending 62% of his life at the helm. FBI directors are now restricted to 10-year terms.
2. The FBI went through a variety of names in the early 20th century. Then-Attorney General Charles Bonaparte recruited a group of federal investigators in 1908 and dubbed it the “special agent force.” The following year, Bonaparte’s successor name it the Bureau of Investigation. In 1933, the name was changed to Division of Investigation. Finally, in 1935, the name was changed to Federal Bureau of Investigations.
3. Hoover was not a fan of female agents. In fact, no women were hired during his tenure. When he arrived three women were agents. They were required to wear skits or dresses and were barred from smoking at their desks.
4. The oldest former FBI agent alive today is 106. Walter Walsh was a skilled marksman who famously participated in a shootout with killed notorious gangster Al Brady in 1937.
5. FBI agents spent two years investigating the Kingsmen’s hit pop song, “Louie Louie.” Parents were concerned the garbled verses contained sexual language. The bureau ultimately released a 120-page report that concluded the song was “unintelligible at any speed.”
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