264: History of Women FBI Agents

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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July 2022 marks the 50^th anniversary of women FBI agents. In this episode, active and retired agents share historical and personal stories about FBI Director Hoover's initial rejection and the Bureau's eventual acceptance of women as agents.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 264 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:14.4	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:21.8	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:27.6	July marks the 50th anniversary of women FBI agents and to commemorate this historic milestone,
0:37.6	today you'll hear from active and retired agents about the history and contributions of female
0:45.9	special agents. For me, it's almost inconceivable, almost, that at one time in our history,
0:55.2	women could not be special agents. I'll let former FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover explain
1:03.2	this prior policy to you. It is not the intent of the FBI to find the special agent position
1:09.7	to males without there being very good reason to do so. Lurking in the minds of those bent
1:15.3	undefined the law must be the ever-present concern for the prowess and the ability of the FBI
1:22.6	The response by our agents must be quick and is frequently military in nature with one man
1:29.5	supported by others, making the initial move such as bounding into a room. He must create the
1:35.6	impression that he is intrepid, forceful, aggressive, dominant and resolute. Our work involves
1:43.6	basically man against man in his body contact profession. That of course was not really FBI
1:53.2	director Jay Edgar Hoover, but it was a 1971 policy statement of Hoover's read by my favorite
2:02.6	son-in-law, Sean Quigley. Now despite what Hoover believed and everything he did to prevent women
2:11.4	joining the FBI as agents, here we are today celebrating the 50th anniversary of women agents,
2:20.4	but this milestone applies only to modern day women agents. If we go all the way back to the early
2:29.9	years when the FBI was known simply as the Bureau of Investigation, this year 2022 will actually be
2:40.4	the 100th anniversary of women special agents because the very first female agents were hired
2:50.1	between 1922 and 1924. As a matter of fact, they were on staff prior to Jay Edgar Hoover being
3:00.7	named acting director on May 10, 1924. The first woman hired as a special investigator,
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