United States Intelligence Community

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Go to http://www.odci.gov/ic/fbi.html

Print this worksheet out if it is not in your Sleuthing packet, and answer the questions thoroughly.

1) What is the overall mission of the FBI?

2) The FBI's top priorities are to investigate the 5 areas that affect our society the most. List these 5 areas.

3) Name some other cooperative services that the FBI provides to other law enforcement agencies.

4) Briefly explain the history of the FBI.

5) Explain the practice of gathering "intelligence", and why it is a vital element to the U.S. Government.

6) Describe a current event or an event from past history that the FBI would have probably been involved in.

7) Click on Virtual Tour of the CIA. Take the tour and answer questions #8 and #9.

8) Use your detective skills to find out who was president at the time these photographs were taken (a clue is given in one photo)?

9) Do you think it was appropriate for a statue to be erected to Nathan Hale? Why or why not?

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