Editing Federal Bureau of Investigation (section)

=== Creation of BOI ===
The Bureau of Investigation (BOI) was created on July 26, 1908.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fbi-founded |title=FBI founded |website=History |access-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-date=December 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220205033/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fbi-founded |url-status=live }}</ref> {{Unreliable source|date=February 2025}}Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds,<ref name=Weiner-ch2 /> hired thirty-four people, including some veterans of the Secret Service,<ref name="historicdates" /><ref name="langeluttig-p9">{{cite book |title=The Department of Justice of the United States |author=Langeluttig, Albert |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press |year=1927 |pages=9–14}}</ref> to work for a new investigative agency. Its first "chief" (the title is now "director") was [[Stanley Finch]]. Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908.<ref name=Weiner-ch2 />

The bureau's first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the "White Slave Traffic Act" or [[Mann Act]], passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation.