Rising to one beocme one of the most powerful men in American politics, John Edgar Hoover directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation for forty-eight years. Appointed as director under the Coolidge administration in 1924, Hoover presided over the Bureau until his death on May 2, 1972. Hoover was credited for creating the modern FBI, the prestigious agency that is celebrated worldwide for its elite law enforcement and forensic capabilities. Hoover created the Bureau in his image, by rounding up the corrupt throughout the agency in its early days, he created a group that set the bar for how law enforcement should be conducted across the country. But after all, J. Edgar Hoover is more commonly known for being one of the most controversial men of the twentieth century and although Hoover rebuilt the FBI in his image, his image was at times skewed by his agenda. His agenda: eradicate anyone that opposed his ideologies by any means at his disposal, such means where often disguised by anti-communist motives. In the early days as Director of the FBI, Hoover spent his time reconstructing the Bureau from the state of corruption it was handed to him in left by the Harding administration. Hoover did so by cutting the Bureau’s budget, firing corrupt or unqualified agents, and terminating the General Intelligence Division which was responsible for domestic surveillance activities. Once Hoover cleaned up the agency he spent the better part of 1930’s going after gangsters, bank robbers, and kidnappers. Hoover and his new FBI became a celebrity among the American people, showing up on countless newspaper headlines for its exemplary police work by putting many big name criminals like Machine Gun Kelly (notorious gangster) and Bruno Hauptmann (the man responsible for the Lindbergh kidnapping) in prison. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI became a credible force in American politics, it no wonder why President Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned to Hoover and his agency with the task of investigating Fascism and Communism in the United States. With such task, Hoover’s anti-communist ideology was born. An example of such view was presented by Hoover to HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee) in 1947, “it stands for the destruction of our American form of government; it stands for the destruction of American democracy; it stands for the destruction of free enterprise; and it stands for the creation of a "Soviet of the United States" and ultimate world revolution (HUAC 1947).” Such a stance gave Hoover the ammunition needed to back his agenda. In the eyes of Hoover, communism will destroy the American way of life, therefore there is nothing that will not be done to defend said lifestyle. J. Edgar Hoover was well known to be an anti-communist, he built his career around this ideology, and the growing communist influence across the globe gave Hoover the grounds to investigate whatever, but more importantly whoever he wanted. Under FDR, the General Intelligence Division was reinstated under the FBI, giving Hoover jurisdiction on domestic surveillance. When World War Two broke out the Bureau nearly doubled in size, along with the expansion of wiretapping and electronic surveillance. With H