EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover building and moving its headquarters to a new location in Washington.

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919.

The director for an astonishing 48 years, starting in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover became one of the most powerful men in American history - a man who collected secrets and knew how to use them.

In 1955, John Lindsay was a rising star at the US Department of Justice and in good graces with then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. But over the next decade and a half, the charismatic, Kennedy ...

Maryland lawmakers are in favor of the amendment, which would prevent Trump from using funds to build the FBI headquarters ...

J. Edgar Hoover (center), director of the FBI, stands by a plaque dedicating a large stained-glass window to him at Capitol Hill Methodist Church, which today is called Capitol Hill United ...

Like Hoover himself, though, J. Edgar is mostly dry-as-dust business. Handsomely upholstered in period browns and grays, the movie puts its head down and plods conscientiously through the well ...

OPINION: Anyone in the know when J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director was aware of the rumors that Hoover kept secret files with damaging information that he could unleash to go after his enemies and ...

Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio on J. Edgar Hoover's private life in new film. Nov. 7, 2011— -- Director Clint Eastwood says that "J.Edgar," his new film about the man who founded the FBI ...

Leonardo DiCaprio Talks J. Edgar Hoover’s Homosexuality; Slashed Fee 90 Percent for Clint Eastwood. In the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, the dream duo open up about the making of the ...

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919. It ended during the presidency of his friend ...

J. Edgar Hoover is seen in his Washington, D.C., office in 1936. A new biography of the long-time FBI director looks at public support for his policies during most of his tenure.