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-2- The Bureau is charged with the duty of investigating violatl the laws of the United States and collecting evidence in cases in which the United States is ar may be a party in interpst, The organization has an annual appropriation of over six millions of dollare, with a personnel of over sixteen hundred employees throughout the United Brates. Under the supervision of the Attorney Gerigral, the Director of the Bureau directs the work of the Special Agents who are employed for the purpose of detecting crime and collecting evidence for use in proposed and pending cases for propecution. Mr. Hoover hes under hig immediate supervision the Identification Tivision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has on file over 6,000,060 sete of fingerprint records of persons who have been arrested ino the United States and forgign countries, representing the larges} and most complete Collection of criminal fingerprint records of current value exist- ing anywhere in the world, In addition, he has under his immediate euper- vigion the crime statistics work which was established on September 1, 1950, involving the collection of etatistice on crime from the various law anforra~- meant affigiale af Lhe United States fer dissemination to interested officials end agencies. Algo, Mr. Hoover hes under his supervision the Technical] Laboratory ef the Bureau, wherein scientific detection aids are utilized in connection with the solving of crimes under the Bureau's Juriedistion. The experts of this laboratory algo agpigt state and Iocal Jew anforcement officials throngh- ent the country in the use of acientific crime detection eifs, such ag handeriting and typewriting analy#is, the examination of blood, hair, cloth, Gils, and bullete, the uee of ultra-violet light in the examination of eub- gtances, and the decoding of cryptographic messages.