Multiple choice

The FBI was formed in _________ under the direction of John Edgar Hoover.

  1. 1924

  2. 1934

  3. 1944
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J. Edgar Hoover was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (which was later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, in 1935) in 1924. Under his leadership, the bureau was heavily reorganized and modernized, establishing its famous forensic laboratory and national fingerprint file. This marked the true beginning of the modern FBI's centralized power.

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