W. Cleon Skousen - True Stories from the Files of the FBI

TRUE STORIES FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI

TRUE STORIES

FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI

W. Cleon Skousen

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TRUE STORIES FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI

With the end of World War II, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saw that another war was just beginning. This one would be tougher, more political, harder to handle, and would require the best his Bureau could offer.

With FBI agents already scattered coast to coast in 1945, tracing down infiltrators and espionage spies from foreign enemies, Hoover had been tracking the development of a new threat to Americaan enemy that rode in on the heels of dumbing down the American public and presenting itself as the new benign, fair, and friendly road to change.

It was called communism, a movement to overthrow the Constitution and the American way of life. Hoover saw these ideas beginning to infiltrate Americas most respected institutions. It was the worst kind of enemy because this one was home-grown.

When World War II ended, Hoovers secret files were already overflowing with damning evidence of personal moral corruption and ulterior motives by names and faces familiar to most post-war Americanspeople already respected as heroes or friends to the wars great cause. But Hoover knew better. He had the proof.

He knew by holding tight to those records, the worst elements in the inner circles of American power politics would be kept back.

He also knew that one skipped heart beat or accidental car crash on the way to work was all it would take for his office to be emptied out and those files to quickly disappear.

Hoover loved America. He was married to his job and hung on to it through political pressures and assassination attempts for many years beyond his normal retirement age. Even after his death, his reputation and personal character were of such high esteem and influence that his many enemies sought to bury even the memory of the man. They tried to assassinate his reputation with scurrilous lies and innuendo.

But at the end of World War II, those events were still in the future, and Hoover saw the critical need to alert the rising generation about the coming plague. He took several steps to educate the baby-boomers and their parents about the dangers of malaise and detachment from their sentry duty over Americas heart and soul.

One of Hoovers early projects was a descriptive report on what the FBI was, what it could do, why it existed, and its role in the safety and security of America. He wanted to teach the youth in particular that it was their job to clean up America.

Tasked to write that report was 32-year-old FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen.

By this time Skousen had proven himself to be one of the Bureaus promising public speakers and writers. He was already a published author, and was giving 100-200 speeches a year.

Skousen was given access to the FBI files for his research. His finished product was called The Story of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, published in 1945. It was subsequently reprinted millions of times and distributed over a period of several years.

Those true stories related in this publication are as close to re-enactments of actual events as mere words can create. It was a time in Americas history when roving gangs with machine guns mowed down rival gangs and innocent bystanders to control territories and illicit activities. Many bragged of the carved notches in the wooden stock of their weapons, tally marks of another life taken. The biggest prize of all was gunning down a police officer or even better, an agent from the FBI.

From a time that lives on for most people in old black-and-white shoot em up Hollywood movies, and the more dramatic portrayals by special effects teams using full-color digitization, the era of the gangster still reverberates through American culture with an almost romantic affixation to those bloody, gun-smoke days of old.

True Stories from the Files of the FBI is not pulp fiction or dramatized back alley stick-ups. Its the real thing, presented for a generation of Americans who today have the mandate on their shoulders to clean up America.

PAUL B. SKOUSEN
June 10, 2014
Salt Lake City, Utah

Wanted by the FBI!

Those words caught the attention of a Midwestern schoolboy waiting for his father to complete some business in the Sheriffs Office of their home county. The youngster noticed something familiar about the fugitive whose picture appeared under those striking words. Then he realized suddenly that the man described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an armed robber had worked on his own fathers farm until a short time before.

Special Agents of the FBI were advised. They quickly traced the fugitive and, with the help of local officers, took him into custody. The wanted man, who had been in hiding for a year, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve 25 years in prison.

That was democracys answer to a man who would not follow the rules. The FBI acted for the people of the United States, who are firm in their determination to preserve law and order. The alert youngster is typical of thousands of Americans who respect the law and furnish invaluable information to Special Agents of the FBI every day.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice, headed by the Attorney General, who is the chief legal officer of the United States.

The functions of the FBI are two-fold. As a fact-finding agency, it investigates violations of federal laws and presents its findings to the Attorney General, his assistants and the United States Attorneys who decide whether the people involved are to be brought to trial. As a service agency, it assists law enforcement in identification and technical matters.

To do the work, the FBI has Special Agents assigned to 56 field divisions throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico, Alaska and Hawaii. Each of these divisions is under a Special Agent in Charge (SAC) who reports to the Director in Washington, D.C. Within an hour a Special Agent can arrive at practically any point in the country where his services may be needed.