{"id":14620,"date":"2026-03-30T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:17:11","slug":"fbi-file-collection-on-j-edgar-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/fbi-file-collection-on-j-edgar-hoover\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI File Collection on J. Edgar Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 \u2013 May 2, 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 director of the Bureau of Investigation \u2013 the FBI’s predecessor \u2013 in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77.<\/p>\n

Hoover has been 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. Hoover is also credited with establishing and expanding a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List, renamed in 2001 as the Terrorist Screening Database which the FBI still compiles and manages.<\/p>\n

Document Archive<\/h3>\n

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Releases<\/h4>\n

\"\"Hoover, J. Edgar<\/a><\/strong> – FBI Release #1 – J. Edgar Hoover Files – [573 Pages, 297MB]
\n\"\"Hoover, J. Edgar<\/a><\/strong> – FBI Vault Release #1 – J. Edgar Hoover Files – [1,920 Pages, 315MB]
\n\"\"Hoover, J. Edgar<\/a><\/strong> – FBI Vault Release #2 – J. Edgar Hoover Appointment and Phone Logs – [3,994 Pages, 1.2GB]
\n\"\"Hoover, J. Edgar<\/a><\/strong> – FBI Vault Release #3 – J. Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential (O&C) Files – [1,903 Pages, 59MB]<\/p>\n

Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Releases<\/h4>\n

\"\"Hoover, J. Edgar<\/a><\/strong> – NCIS Release #1 [7 Pages, 0.5MB]<\/p>\n

Postal Inspection Service (PIS) Releases<\/h4>\n

\"\"Hoover, J. Edgar<\/a><\/strong> – PIS Release #1 [21 Pages, 2.1MB]<\/p>\n

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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 \u2013 May 2, 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 director of the Bureau of Investigation \u2013 the FBI’s predecessor \u2013 in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,3],"tags":[302,301,1810],"class_list":{"0":"post-14620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi-collection","8":"category-history","9":"tag-fbi","10":"tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","11":"tag-j-edgar-hoover"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unnamed-file-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21249,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/21249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}