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John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), and actually helped found it from its predecessor (Bureau of Investigation) in 1935. He also built the FBI into the large, efficient crime-fighting agency it is, and bettered police technology, like adding a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
