James 'Jack' Wormley Jones was America's first black special agent, hired by the FBI in 1919 to infiltrate US paramilitary groups with radical agendas and ties to the Communist Party and Ku Klux Klan.
When the FBI's Director presented Sylvia Elizabeth Mathis with her snub-nosed Smith & Wesson revolver and leather attaché case in 1976, Agent #2658 made history as the first-ever black female FBI Special Agent. At the time, only about 40 out of the 8,500 FBI agents were women.
James Wormley Jones (September 22, 1884 – December 11, 1958) was an African-American policeman and World War I veteran, who is best known for having been the first African-American FBI special agent.
According to FBI data, 80% of special agents are white. Less than 5% are Black. MCMILLION: It has always been a challenge for the FBI to have diversity in the ranks, particularly in the special agent position.
Fifty years after beginning training at the FBI Academy to become the FBI's first female special agents, Joanne Pierce Misko and Susan Roley Malone returned to the FBI for an anniversary celebration and reunion.
In the FBI's Most Wanted List's 72-year history, only 11 women have made it on it. The women ranged from political activists like Angela Davis to the most recent, Ruja Ignatova.
Zandra Flemister, the first Black woman to serve as a special agent in the U.S. Secret Service, died last week at age 71. She is being remembered as a pioneer at the agency, which she left after four years because of racial discrimination.
The investigations will inevitably be conducted by a majority White workforce – 74% of FBI employees are White, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
Even today, as the FBI vigorously recruits a more diverse workforce, African-American agents still make up less than 5 percent of the Bureau's 13,000 special agents, though the number is rising.
Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for the Russians, dies in supermax prison. "He ultimately became the most damaging spy in Bureau history," the agency said.
Joaquín "Jack" García (born 1952) is a Cuban-American retired FBI agent, best known for his undercover work infiltrating the Gambino crime family in New York City. García is regarded as one of the most successful and prolific undercover agents in the history of the FBI. Joaquín "Jack" García.
He's also regularly accused of broaching people's civil liberties - but in fact, Hoover resisted the wire-tapping activities that President Nixon wanted to perpetuate. The FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. is named the J. Edgar Hoover Building, after Hoover.
Amy Hess is the FBI's highest-ranking female. She currently serves as executive assistant director of the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch.
Josephine Baker Was the First Black Superstar — and World War II's Most Unlikely Spy. Josephine Baker in a Paris nightclub ca. 1927. Freda Josephine McDonald was born in 1906 to parents who were entertainers in the St.
Katherine Renee Turner joined the cast of CBS' hit series FBI in its third season as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace.
The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) elite tactical unit. The HRT was formed to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout the United States.
The motto, “ Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity,” succinctly describes the motivating force behind the men and women of the FBI (see below). The peaked bevelled edge which circumscribes the seal symbolizes the severe challenges confronting the FBI and the ruggedness of the organization.
Don't assume that becoming an FBI agent is a young person's game: the average age of special agents is 43. Many of the recruits are indeed young and hoping to make the FBI their career. Others are older Americans launching a second career after some years in the military, law enforcement or criminal justice.
Additional barriers were broken when Omego became the first African American member of the Agency's Executive Committee and a charter member of the Senior Intelligence Service. Omego's final Agency assignment was as the Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence. In 1982, Omego retired from the CIA.
Mr. Gittens' legacy of accomplishments will live on with all those who knew him, as well as all of us who benefitted from the path he created and standards he set as the first African American agent in the Secret Service. His contributions to this agency and this country cannot be overstated.”
Special Agent Mary Ann Gordon joined the U.S. Secret Service in 1974 among the first ten female special agents ever hired by the agency. Not too long after, she helped steer the course of history. Gordon's list of trailblazing accomplishments is no doubt impressive.
FBI on Twitter: "Meet our oldest living FBI Agent, 101 year-old Walter Walsh: http://tinyurl.com/866muo" / Twitter.
John Edward Douglas is a former FBI agent and one of the world's premier criminal profilers. He worked to bring numerous serial killers to justice and to understand what leads some people to commit such brutal murders in the first place. Learn more about his career and the darker elements of the human psyche.