FBI
SUMMARY
Hoover's files kept presidents polite for half a century. Some cabinets stayed locked.
FULL DOSSIER
The Bureau's conspiracy-relevant record is its own file releases: COINTELPRO (exposed by burglary, confirmed by Church), the King campaign, Hoover's 'Official and Confidential' files (portions released; their use documented in Sullivan's testimony and Summers' sourcing), crime-lab scandals (the 1997 IG report; the 2015 hair-analysis review finding flawed testimony in 90%+ of examined cases), and informant-program controversies (Bulger). The node grounds the archive's law-enforcement thread in inspector-general paper rather than lore.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Church Committee Book III
02FBI/DOJ IG lab reports (1997)
03hair-analysis review (2015)
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
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