Morgan Building on Wall Street that killed dozens and injured more than 300 people. 1920s and 1930sįollowing the war, domestic terrorism became a focus of the New York Field Office as it pursued anarchist bombers responsible for a mail bombing campaign in the spring of 1919, a more direct bombing attack in June of that year, and the Septembombing of the J.P. entered the war, Congress passed the Espionage Act of 1917, and New York became the key focus of much of the Bureau’s counterintelligence work. Between 19, Mann Act (anti-prostitution) investigations were significant, as were a wide variety of white-collar crime matters.Īs World War I broke out in Europe, war-related investigations grew in importance, but the most significant violations-involving acts of sabotage-initially were not pursued by Bureau agents since there were no federal laws against such attacks, which were largely committed by German partisans. A number of special examiners, accountants, and antitrust agents soon made New York City their operating base. According to an agent who worked in the early Bureau, the New York Field Office had a special agent in charge and about six to eight field agents by 1911. The new force grew slowly, but from the beginning, agents were assigned to New York and Chicago because of the great need for regular investigative support in those cities. Sauer was one of the first new agents hired for this force.
Congress had recently ended the ability of the Department of Justice and other executive agencies to borrow investigators from the Treasury Department’s Secret Service, so Attorney General Charles Bonaparte began to reorganize the department, creating an experimental special agent force to answer the department’s investigative needs. Sauer was notified that he had been designated special agent in charge in New York City.
Several weeks prior to July 26, 1908-when a special agent force that would ultimately become the FBI was officially created-I.C.
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