On December 1, 2011, the FBI released a letter written – allegedly – by terrorists of the “Faln Puerto Rican Independence Movement” to John Lennon, in which the group threatened Lennon as well as his family’s if a $100,000 demand was not met. The letter was dated November 29, 1977, three years before Lennon was [...]

On October 31st, the FBI released a collection of documents related to the investigation surrounding the Russian spy ring that the Agency busted in 2010. The documents add further weight to the idea that Anna Chapman was nothing more than a low-level amateur hoping to make it into the “big-leagues” as a real Russian spy. [...]

Imagine the sick feeling in your stomach after being arrested and convicted of a crime you didn’t commit, in a country you haven’t even visited. You’d wonder if it was all a bad dream, but the evidence is damning and very real. The evidence convicting you is your fingerprint. This may sound like something from [...]

In 1978, the FBI was tasked with investigating the massacre at “Jonestown.” Jonestown was the unofficial name given to the area in Guyana, South America, where the People’s Temple Agricultural Project was located. The project was actually a cult community based on a quasi-Christian religion with apocalyptic themes led by Jim Jones; the town’s namesake. [...]

In the wake of the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 last month, the FBI released dozens of detailed 9-11 images and videos related to the terrorist attacks on America. The material has been put on the FBI website’s ‘Reading Room’, which according to the site’s disclaimer “contains many files of public interest and historical [...]

John Dillinger may be the most infamous Depression-era criminal, and perhaps the most famed bank robber in American history. In 1933, Dillinger’s gang went on a robbery rampage that would have deadly consequences for the officer and detectives who tried to stop the gang. John Dillinger was paroled from prison in 1933 after serving an [...]

The Justice Department estimates that 797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period. That averages out to more than 2,000 children being reported missing each day! In an attempt to curb those numbers, the FBI is asking the general public for help. They are also providing an easy-to-use tool in this [...]

Corruption is an ever-present issue in state and federal government. On occasion, one of these high profile corruption cases makes it into the media. However, that is only the tiny tip of a massive iceberg when it comes to the number of corruption cases that the Justice Department works on every year. The FBI estimates [...]

From 1947 through 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union was pit against each other in the Cold War. During this time, there was a growing contingent of Communist sympathizers in the U.S. So much so, that there was an organized communist party in the U.S., and by the 1950s and 1960s this party [...]

The FBI has returned invaluable artifacts to Iraq, and publicly revealed that the relics were stolen by Department of Defense contractors. Terracotta plaques and other artifacts were seized during a 2006 investigation. The relics are thousands of years old and have tremendous cultural significance in Iraq. The success of the law enforcement operation that returned [...]