General Intelligence Division organization
also: G.I.D, GID, Hoover's General Intelligence Division
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A. Mitchell Palmer founded
General Intelligence Division documented
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“First he established a General Intelligence Division in the Justice Department headed by J Edgar Hoover…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.388
J. Edgar Hoover headed
General Intelligence Division documented
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“First he established a General Intelligence Division in the Justice Department headed by J Edgar Hoover…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.388
Francis P. Garvan headed
General Intelligence Division documented
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“Overall direction of the work of the GID under Hoover and the Bureau under Flynn was placed in the hands of an Assistant Attorney General Francis P Garvan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.389
General Intelligence Division operated_in
United States documented
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“The GID also had expanded 'to cover more general intelligence work including not only the radical activities in the United States and abroad but also the studying of matters of an international nature as well as economic and industrial dist…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.392
General Intelligence Division did_business_with
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“While the General Intelligence Division has not participated in the investigations of the overt acts of radicals in the United States its solo function being that of collecting evidence and preparing the same for proper presentation to the …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.392
General Intelligence Division merged_with
FBI documented
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“Under the Harding Administration and Attorney General Harry Daugherty the GID was made a part of the Bureau of Investigation under Director William J Burns with J Edgar Hoover becoming an Assistant Director of the Bureau…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.393
Harlan Fiske Stone dissolved
General Intelligence Division documented
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“These conclusions buttressed the Attorney General's decision to abolish the Bureau's domestic intelligence operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.395
Federal Bureau of Investigation founded
General Intelligence Division documented
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“He told the House Appropriations Committee that establishment of a General Intelligence Division 'was made necessary by the President's proclamation directing that all complaints of violations of the national defense statutes and proclamati…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.413
Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered_assassination_of
General Intelligence Division documented
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“He told the House Appropriations Committee that establishment of a General Intelligence Division 'was made necessary by the President's proclamation directing that all complaints of violations of the national defense statutes and proclamati…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.413
FBI founded
General Intelligence Division documented
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“on August 1 1919 a General Intelligence Division was established within the Bureau to devote concentrated scrutiny to the subject…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.104
J. Edgar Hoover headed
General Intelligence Division documented
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“Coincident with the creation of the new Division the Bureau selected J Edgar Hoover as Division chief…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.104
J. Edgar Hoover renamed_to
General Intelligence Division documented
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“He named his force the General Intelligence Division GID.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.104
General Intelligence Division operated_in
United States documented
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“The Intelligence Division reported that its task was complicated by reason of 'the fact that one of the main characteristics of the radicals in the United States is found in their migratory nature.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.106
General Intelligence Division reported
United States Congress documented
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“The GID assured Congress that Mr Hoover had a group of experts 'especially trained for the purpose.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.106
General Intelligence Division member_of
FBI documented
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“The radicals seemed so numerous that GID [Hoover's General Intelligence Division] decided to try to herd big groups of them into meeting halls on the nights assigned for raiding their membership…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.120
General Intelligence Division split_off_from
Domestic Intelligence Division documented
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“At Washington headquarters a General Intelligence Division forerunner of today's Domestic Intelligence Division had been created to coordinate and supervise all work related to "espionage sabotage and other subversive activities and violati…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.142
J. Edgar Hoover headed
General Intelligence Division documented
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“In 1919 J Edgar Hoover a DepartmentalAttorney since 1917 was placed in charge of the General Intelligence Division Departmcnl,of Justice…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.561
General Intelligence Division subsidiary_of
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“In 1919 J Edgar Hoover a DepartmentalAttorney since 1917 was placed in charge of the General Intelligence Division Departmcnl,of Justice…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.561