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*[[List of FBI controversies#Files on Puerto Rican independence advocates|Files on Puerto Rican independence advocates]] – [[Member of Congress|Congressman]] [[Luis Gutiérrez|Luiz Gutierrez]] revealed that [[Pedro Albizu Campos]] and his [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party|Nationalist]] political party had been watched for a decade-long period in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Navarro |first1=Mireya |date=February 23, 2017 |title=New Light on Old F.B.I. Fight; Decades of Surveillance of Puerto Rican Groups |newspaper=The New York Times |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/new-light-on-old-fbi-fight-decades-of-surveillance-of-puerto-rican-groups.html |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223121153/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/new-light-on-old-fbi-fight-decades-of-surveillance-of-puerto-rican-groups.html |archive-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
*[[List of FBI controversies#Files on Puerto Rican independence advocates|Files on Puerto Rican independence advocates]] – [[Member of Congress|Congressman]] [[Luis Gutiérrez|Luiz Gutierrez]] revealed that [[Pedro Albizu Campos]] and his [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party|Nationalist]] political party had been watched for a decade-long period in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Navarro |first1=Mireya |date=February 23, 2017 |title=New Light on Old F.B.I. Fight; Decades of Surveillance of Puerto Rican Groups |newspaper=The New York Times |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/new-light-on-old-fbi-fight-decades-of-surveillance-of-puerto-rican-groups.html |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223121153/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/nyregion/new-light-on-old-fbi-fight-decades-of-surveillance-of-puerto-rican-groups.html |archive-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
*[[Whitey Bulger|The Whitey Bulger case]] – The FBI was, and continues to be, criticized for its handling of [[Boston]] criminal Whitey Bulger. As a result of Bulger acting as an [[informant]], the agency turned a blind eye to his activities as an exchange.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Barnicle |first1=Mike |date=December 18, 2013 |title=James 'Whitey' Bulger Got Away With Murder, Thanks to the FBI |url=https://ideas.time.com/2013/08/12/the-fbi-kept-whitey-bulger-free-for-decades/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218093737/http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/12/the-fbi-kept-whitey-bulger-free-for-decades/ |archive-date=December 18, 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Whitey Bulger|The Whitey Bulger case]] – The FBI was, and continues to be, criticized for its handling of Boston criminal Whitey Bulger. As a result of Bulger acting as an [[informant]], the agency turned a blind eye to his activities as an exchange.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Barnicle |first1=Mike |date=December 18, 2013 |title=James 'Whitey' Bulger Got Away With Murder, Thanks to the FBI |url=https://ideas.time.com/2013/08/12/the-fbi-kept-whitey-bulger-free-for-decades/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218093737/http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/12/the-fbi-kept-whitey-bulger-free-for-decades/ |archive-date=December 18, 2013 |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Latin America]] – For decades during the [[Cold War]], the FBI placed agents to monitor the governments of [[Caribbean]] and Latin American nations.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2014 |title=Che Guevara and the FBI: U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary by Michael Ratner — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473884.Che_Guevara_and_the_FBI |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513014007/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473884.Che_Guevara_and_the_FBI |archive-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref>
*[[Latin America]] – For decades during the [[Cold War]], the FBI placed agents to monitor the governments of [[Caribbean]] and Latin American nations.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2014 |title=Che Guevara and the FBI: U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary by Michael Ratner — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473884.Che_Guevara_and_the_FBI |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513014007/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473884.Che_Guevara_and_the_FBI |archive-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref>
*[[Surveillance|Domestic surveillance]] – In 1985, it was found that the FBI had made use of [[surveillance devices]] on numerous American citizens between 1940 and 1960.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Agur |first=Colin |date=November 2013 |title=Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878–1968 |journal=Information & Culture |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=419–447 |doi=10.7560/ic48402 |issn=2164-8034 |hdl=11299/182084 |s2cid=73533167 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>
*[[Surveillance|Domestic surveillance]] – In 1985, it was found that the FBI had made use of [[surveillance devices]] on numerous American citizens between 1940 and 1960.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Agur |first=Colin |date=November 2013 |title=Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878–1968 |journal=Information & Culture |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=419–447 |doi=10.7560/ic48402 |issn=2164-8034 |hdl=11299/182084 |s2cid=73533167 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>