How long has the FBI been in operation?

An agency called the Bureau of Investigation was instituted in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

He believed that the federal government should have an arm to enforce federal law.

It was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.

Twenty-nine-year-old J. Edgar Hoover became its first acting director in 1924.

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