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J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building — Fotopedia

Congress approved a separate FBI building in April, 1962. The General Services Administration (GSA), which handled public building construction, allocated $12,265,000 for architectural and engineering design. At that time, the total estimated cost was $60,000,000. GSA selected Charles F. Murphy and Associates, Chicago, Illinois, as architects, and Berswenger, Hoch, Arnold and Associates, Akron, Ohio, for engineering. The National Capital Planning Commission approved the site; the building design required approval from the National Capital Planning Commission, GSA, the Commission on Fine Arts, and the Pennsylvania Avenue Advisory Council. Although all conferences between GSA and the architects were open to Bureau representatives, and GSA sought FBI opinion, neither the FBI nor the Department of Justice had to approve the exterior design. The, Bureau, however, allocated the interior space.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a governmental agency belonging to the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency (counterintelligence). Also, it is the government agency responsible for investigating crimes on Indian Reservations in the United States under the Major Crimes Act. The branch has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime.

The agency was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935.

The agency headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, D.C.. The agency has fifty-six field offices located in major cities throughout the United States, and more than 400 resident agencies in lesser cities and areas across the nation. More than 50 international offices called "legal attachés" exist in U.S. embassies and consulates general worldwide.

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