Understanding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Juan Garcia Abrego, in 1995, was the first drug trafficker to be listed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List.

Robert C. Janiszewski, longtime County Executive of Hudson County, New Jersey, was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI.

retired banker and former Louisiana legislator Loy F. Weaver was as an FBI agent cited five times for outstanding performance and personal bravery by Director J. Edgar Hoover.

when the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, Walter Walsh, its oldest living former agent, was one year older than the agency itself.

scandal erupted after the Department of Justice initiated prosecution of Jackie Presser only to abruptly end it once the press revealed Presser had been an informant for the FBI for over 10 years.

George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent.

Chip Berlet's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI.

FCC and ACLU head James Lawrence Fly's influence in opposing wiretapping led the FBI to start a file on him.

United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations.

Dallas Smythe, an early researcher of the political economy of communications, earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy.

British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings.

Understanding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

1 He pleaded guilty to treason and received a ________ in 2002, but the incident led many to question the security practices employed by the FBI.

2 The FBI is in process of moving its Records Management Division, which processes Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, to ________.

3 They must be confirmed by the ________ and serve ten-year terms unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term is up.

4 Protect the United States from terrorist attack (see ________);

5 Under the PATRIOT Act's provisions the FBI also resumed inquiring into the ________ records of those who are suspected of terrorism (something it had supposedly not done since the 1970s).

6 It has settled a dispute with ________, who was a private security guard at the venue, along with some media organizations, in regards to the leaking of his name during the investigation.

7 What does the following picture show? FBI agents from the Washington Field Office with a tactical vehicle standing by for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration; J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI Headquarters; FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office

8 ________ (RICO)-prohibited activities (17 charges)

9 The FBI's headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is located in ________.

10 What does the following picture show? J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI Headquarters; Agents in training on the FBI Academy firing range; Lester J. Gillis, also known as 'Baby Face' Nelson; FBI Mobile Command Center, Washington Field Office

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