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1894.
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English
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Lafayette Curry Baker was a United States investigator and spy, serving for the Union Army, during the American Civil War and under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. This volume was written by Baker and accounts the history of some of the most notorious spies of the conflict. Baker went out to be the first chief of the Secret Service as we know it today.
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The romance of war in its most thrilling form is exemplified in this narrative of the adventures of The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents. Much has been published upon the subject of espionage, and the memoirs and secret histories of the courts of Europe give us instances of men and women who have gained favor and money, if not honor and glory, by selling back-stairs gossip concerning their fellow creatures; but the aim of...
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Now a #1 Netflix documentary series. Get the full shocking story about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in this #1 New York Times bestselling and definitive book, updated with the latest headline-making news and new photos.
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers — and for people — Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination...
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers — and for people — Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination...
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Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his 25-year career as an FBI special agent, the author takes us along America's highways and interstates where at least 850 homicides have been linked to long-haul truck drivers, which caused the FBI to open a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings initiative.
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""Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged...
10) Smuggler
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English
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When twenty-something post-grad Nick Fillmore discovers the zine he’s been recruited to edit is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling operation and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ride he doesn’t know how to get off of. After a bag goes missing in an airport transit lounge he is summoned to West Africa to take a voodoo oath with Nigerian mafia. Bound to drug boss Alhaji,...
11) Kiss
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Publisher
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1980?]
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English
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After a rowdy concert led to several assaults on police officers, the FBI opened an investigation on the rock group Kiss.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1972?]
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English
Description
After the band's surge of popularity, the Bureau opened an extensive file on The Beatles, looking into everything from the British rockers' song lyrics, concert venues and political beliefs. This is the third of the three-part FBI file.
14) The Doors
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Publisher
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1969?]
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English
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The Bureau opened an investigation of the popular band The Doors and its lead singer Jim Morrison in 1969, positing that the band was purposefully trying to incite riots or violence against police.
15) Tupac Shakur
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Publisher
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1997?]
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English
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Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rap artist. His FBI file consists of a 1997 investigation into death threats made against Shakur by a domestic terrorist group, the Southside Crips. The investigation was conducted in hopes of solving Tupac’s September 1996 murder.
On September 7, 1996, Shakur and others attended a boxing match in Las Vegas. After leaving, Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records and Shakur’s manager, spotted Orlando “Baby...
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1970?]
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English
Description
In the 1970s, the Bureau investigated rock group Jefferson Airplane for their involvement in demonstrations for the Youth International Party, a group that organized a rally regarding the national campaign to impeach President Nixon in 1974. The Bureau also investigated Jefferson Airplane's alleged involvement with American anarchist groups.
18) Jimi Hendrix
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1969?]
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English
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The Bureau began to keep tabs on famous musician James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix after he was arrested in Canada for possession of drugs. Aiding the Canadian police and curious themselves, agents investigated the guitarist to ensure he was not partaking in any other illegal activities.
19) Robin Gibb
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
[1980?]
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English
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Robin H. Gibb was a well-known singer/songwriter with the Bee Gees. Between 1980 and 1981, the FBI investigated a threatening telegram signed with Robin's name sent to the London law firm representing Gibb’s wife in divorce proceedings.
20) James Brown
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Publisher
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Pub. Date
[1988?]
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English
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In 2008, the FBI released an investigation file on James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul,” detailing his involvement in a 1988 police chase across South Carolina and Georgia. After being arrested for drugs and weapons charges in May of that year, Brown was pursued by police in September in a car chase on Interstate 20, near the South Carolina-Georgia border. After an hour of pursuit, Brown was caught, charged and convicted of carrying an unlicensed...
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