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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, America's most famous law enforcement agency, was established in 1908 and ever since has been the subject of countless books, articles, essays, congressional investigations, television programs and motion pictures--but even so it remains an enigma to many, deliberately shrouded in mystery on the basis of privacy or national security concerns. This encyclopedia has entries on a broad range of topics related to the FBI, including biographical sketches of directors, agents, attorneys general, notorious fugitives, and people (well known and unknown) targeted by the FBI; events, cases and investigations such as ILLWIND, ABSCAM and Amerasia; FBI terminology and programs such as COINTELPRO and VICAP; organizations marked for disruption including the KGB and the Ku Klux Klan; and various general topics such as psychological profiling, fingerprinting and electronic surveillance. It begins with a brief overview of the FBI's origins and history.
It’s 1920, and a horrible Bald Man just murdered six-year-old Julia Hanover’s parents and tried to kill her too. But she manages to escape and is adopted by the Reverend Zebediah Lumpkin, and his wife. Years pass and now it’s 1933 and the Great Depression is in full swing. People are poor, it hasn’t rained in Oklahoma in three years, and Bonnie and Clyde are robbing banks all over the state. And the little girl? The Lumpkins have renamed her Baby Faye Lumpkin and she’s pretending to be eleven years old to help them bilk people out of their money. She wants desperately to escape. The problem is, she can’t remember who she is and has suddenly begun to have nightmares about a murder...