Directors and agents of the United States Bureau of Investigation, the FBI and related federal services, including the directors who built the bureau, the agents of the gangster era and the Prohibition agent known for the Untouchables, and a Secret Service agent and interrogator. A person belongs here when the cited source describes service as a federal director or special agent. It excludes the behavioral profilers, who have their own group. Entries placed here are Melvin Purvis, J. Edgar Hoover, Stanley W. Finch, Frank J. Wilson, Eliot Ness and Evy Poumpouras.
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Evy Poumpouras (Wikipedia)
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She was a special agent, polygraph examiner, and interrogator with the United States Secret Service from 2000 to 2012.
Wikipedia: Sanford Bates
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served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (1930-1937)
FBI.gov: Stanley Finch, The Bureau's First Director
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Stanley Wellington Finch was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation (1908-1912).
Wikipedia: Eliot Ness
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Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 - May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago.
Wikipedia: Melvin Purvis
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Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 - February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent who was instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934.
Robert King Wittman (Wikipedia)
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Robert King Wittman (born 1955) is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who was assigned to the Philadelphia Field Division from 1988 to 2008.
New World Encyclopedia: J. Edgar Hoover
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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895, May 2, 1972) was an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Gregg McCrary (Wikipedia)
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Gregg O. McCrary (born September 10, 1945) is a former FBI agent who served from 1969 to 1995, an expert witness and consultant, an author and an adjunct forensic psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, and at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
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