1941 FBI / FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTARY J. EDGAR HOOVER 65194

This 1941 black and white film about the FBI and its wartime activities was narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis. The inside of a 1940s FBI car is shown, followed by its FBI license plate (0:31-0:50). Men in suits walk into the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice building (0:51-1:05). FBI agents work at a community table, do paperwork, and hold meetings with local law enforcement officers (1:06-1:48). People walk through the hallways in the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (1:49-2:09). Women work as secretaries and typists and men work as telephone switchboard operators (2:10-2:20). J. Edgar Hoover works at his office desk (2:21-2:34). Agents file paperwork in a room full of filing cabinets. Women sort through mounds of fingerprint papers. FBI scientists in a forensic crime lab suspend WANTED fliers in liquid, analyze papers under lights, work with chemicals, analyze specimens using microscopes, and take gear wheels and fuses samples from evidence (2:35-3:28). The Quantico, VA FBI Academy plaque is shown outside the school (2:29-3:36). Student agents in 1940s gym shorts are trained in self-defense, including grabbing a gun from an attacker. They work with firearms, practicing their marksmanship at an outdoor shooting range course. They work in a laboratory, learning spectral analysis and microchemical analysis (3:37-4:48). FBI scientists adjust chemical tools, look through 1940s analysis technology, inspect microfilms, and decode enemy materials (4:49-5:21). A reenactment of an on-file case from WWII is shown, where German agents work in a house. On display is a swastika, a sketch of Hitler, and other Nazi memorabilia (5:22-5:51). The German agent’s restaurant has a secret back room, shown hosting a meeting of German-American Nazi supporters while wearing a Nazi uniform. He is unaware a FBI agent is there undercover, who pulls up the antennae of a discrete radio transmitter from his grocery bag. FBI agents in a nearby car listen (5:52-7:04). FBI agents perform distance surveillance on the German agent as he talks on the phone and then meets with a high-ranking Nazi. He hides German officers in his cellar where a Nazi banner hangs (7:05-9:31). The FBI agents send an agent in undercover with a fake German identification microfilm hidden in a Bayer Aspirin tin, which the German agent falls for. The FBI agent speaks perfect German to the German officers in the cellar and collects evidence as they sleep. The evidence is brought back to the FBI office, where they formalize plans to capture a Nazi officer as he leaves (9:32-12:29). They follow the Nazi who hitchhikes into the country and apprehend him. They arrest the German agent, Nazi officer, and workers. The FBI removes the Nazi home memorabilia and arrest the leader of the spy ring (12:30-16:25). At FBI headquarters, agents do paperwork, review headshots, and hold meetings (16:26-16:57). J. Edgar Hoover gives a speech to local law enforcement officials (16:58-17:16). Agents leave the FBI Academy. The crest of the FBI is shown (17:17-17:31).
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[@boss2234]

What it was and what it has become is exactly what was feared when it was created.

[@stephenarling1667]

06:20 stealthy electronic eavesdropping 10:02 "Bayer" aspirin 12:40 "God Bless America" (and National Cash Register) 17:06 John Edgar Hoover himself.

[@markhansell84]

Yeah.... Imagine what they can do these days.... SCARY....

[@RadicalforGod]

Number one terrorist organization

[@blueduck9409]

Back when the FBI was respectable. Hoover was a freak.

[@qur4334]

Supposedly Hoover was passing as Caucasian.?

[@Mark-ce3gp]

Hey Baumeyer.. Here's a tip don't have Bund meeting in the back room of you're restaurant..5:33

[@billhuber2964]

No shit.

[@joeguzman3558]

When only criminals used to be afraid of the FBI as they should but today even ex presidents have to watch out Lol

[@jmac3480]

If they only knew about Hoover what we know now.....

[@davea8346]

Strange, no mention of their "dress" code.

[@Jabberstax]

This film is from 1947, not 1941

[@therealxunil2]

This can't be from 1941 - they talk about having defeated the Axis.

[@joeguzman3558]

When the American people used to respect them - And they used to respect the American people

[@christophermichael.w.7577]

I love the old g man videos. I have seen a couple good ones with old footage of them fighting the guys with tommy guns.

[@surearrow]

>> This particular take -down maneuver is no longer applicable to present day Americans. >> 3:40

[@gonebamboo4116]

Nowadays they license crime.

[@Nic-bm5lf]

5:00 I don't think this was made in 1941 maybe like 1951 or after but idk

[@jec1ny]

Agreed. Probably late 1940s.

[@Jabberstax]

It's 1947

[@kazuyoshisakamoto4096]

Thank you for posting your valuable video. I read his memoir "Freedom Betrayed", and watching videos like this helps me to acquire knowledge because I can learn about various aspects of him.

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[@jeremybrownfield1025]

Now they are the corrupt of the corrupt. For awhile the party line was it's the guys at the top not the rank and file well turns out the rank and file are just as bad. It's beyond time to fire them all and charge those who need charged and start over

[@billhuber2964]

Not all FBI agents are bad. Some individuals are rotten apples. Hoover said it best "no one man can build the Bureau, but one man can tear it down".

[@takecareofyrshoes]

crazy how j. edgar hoover was kind of a fruit.

[@therealxunil2]

An antenna sticking out of your vegetables is perfectly normal ....

[@joeguzman3558]

6:38 has anyone seen the Kentucky fried movie ? When the Bruce Lee microphone comes out Lol ? The antenna reminds me of that.

[@milicadjukich4416]

IF J EDGAR HOOVER WAS ALIVE ALL THIS GARBAGE WOULD NOT BE A MESS, WAKE UP PEOPLE.

[@johnwow2646]

J. Edgar Hoover was such a hypocrite!

[@colt4667]

This is so corny but the movie-going audiences probably ate it up in 1941.

[@basketballspinner]

man, if it wasn’t for j edgar hoover, Baumeyer would’ve taken over from that restaurant hideout....

[@tomm7434]

It sure looks like the was enjoying them sandwiches though.

[@cynthiataylor2597]

Exactly. This Will not end. It's inevitable.

[@upsty6499]

The propaganda was deep by the FBI here.

[@amandagergely1122]

Dang,and wow too. And a diggity dang too

[@rwnorris24]

Big Honey Bear = Queer Fear = F.B.I

[@sambradley1968]

Hoover was a Fascist who destroyed many lives, although he did introduce certain technological procedures that are being used all over the world, such as fingerprinting. 😐

[@albear972]

Argentina is the first modern country to use fingerprints as evidence. The FBI just improved on that.

[@albear972]

@@SSN515Did you miss the part about I mentioning modern countries?

[@timothyroberts9980]

I was surprised to find out , some states have a , bureau of investigation. In Colorade , we call it , CBI.

[@christophermichael.w.7577]

Tennessee has one also. They are absolutely nothing like the FBI☺

[@basketballspinner]

this is some great espionage

[@tjmmcd1]

The FBI is a privately owned corporation, founded in 1908. It is funded with taxpayer dollars. It is no more FEDERAL than the CDC, Federal Express, or the Federal Reserve, which is another privately-owned, for-profit corporation. The FBI is no different than corporations like Wackenhut or Blackwater, which changed it's name to XE and is now known as Academi. They are ALL privately-owned, for-profit corporations that TRICK the American people into believing the are actually 'part' of the federal government and answer to, or actually have some kind of inherent power over the American people.

[@Jabberstax]

You're saying it's privately owned AND funded by the taxpayer? Can you see a problem with your logic there?

[@tomm7434]

I like this kind of thing.

[@clayz1]

WACO Texas

[@timothyroberts9980]

J Edgar Hoover was a good guy back then. Only years later , did the general public find out , he had a dark side.

[@shamrock1961]

I'll bet it was expensive to buy all those women's clothes he wore to dress like his mother. :-D

[@timothyroberts9980]

In this day of political correctness , you will be called a trans phobic or homo phobic.

[@plateshutoverlock]

So did George Washington Show me a 'perfect' leader, and I'll point out a fraud.

[@plateshutoverlock]

I hope he buttoned his collar

[@gonebamboo4116]

@@plateshutoverlock I follow Jesus Christ. He is no fraud.