Incredible J. Edgar Hoover TLS Detailing FBI Data Sent to Chief Of NY Police Including the
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Incredible J. Edgar Hoover TLS Detailing FBI Data Sent to Chief Of NY Police Including the "Installation of a single fingerprint file" which Hoover Established
1p, 8" x 10.5”, TLS boldly signed by J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), then Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as "J. E. Hoover" in blue felt-tip pen near the bottom. Expected flattened folds from mailing, some foxing and toning, else fine. Written in Washington, D.C. on August 24, 1935 to Mr. Chester Bills, the Chief of Police in Auburn, NY, on Hoover's personal "Federal Bureau of Investigation / United States Department of Justice / Washington, D.C." letterhead. Hoover writes an incredible list of FBI data he is sending to the NY police chief including "Fingerprints", "photography of fingerprints on multi-colored objects", "installation of a single fingerprint file", "crime statistics", "training of personal" and more.
John Edgar Hoover (January 1895 – May 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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