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On July
26, 1908, Attorney General Charles Bonaparte ordered 9
newly hired detectives, 13 civil rights
investigators,
and 12 accountants to report to his Chief Examiner, Stanley
Finch, for investigative assignments in things like antitrust,
peonage, and land fraud. Ninety-five years later, that small
group of 34 investigators has grown into a cadre of over
27,000 employees with a mission "to protect and defend
the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence
threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United
States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services
to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies
and partners."
To
learn more about the origins of the FBI and the people
involved in creating it 95 years ago, see the essay describing
the FBI's creation and, for the first time on FBI.GOV,
historic
documents from the Bureau's founding.
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