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What We Investigate
What We Investigate
Transnational Organized Crime
The FBI is dedicated to eliminating transnational organized crime groups that pose the greatest threat to the national and economic security of the United States.
Counterintelligence and Espionage
The FBI is the lead agency for exposing, preventing, and investigating intelligence activities, including espionage, in the U.S.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate investigates and works to prevent incidents involving nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical weapons.
Civil Rights
The FBI, the lead agency for enforcing civil rights law, aggressively investigates hate crime, color of law abuses by public officials, human trafficking and involuntary servitude, and freedom of access to clinic entrances violations.
Public Corruption
Public corruption poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of life.
White-Collar Crime
These crimes are not violent, but they are not victimless. White-collar crimes can destroy a company, wipe out a person's life savings, cost investors billions of dollars, and erode the public's trust in institutions.