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In February 2004, the Associated Press reported on this quashed report:

An internal FBI report kept under wraps for three years details dozens of cases of agents fired for egregious misconduct and crimes, including drug trafficking, attempted murder, theft, misuse of informants and consorting with prostitutes.

The report, released Wednesday by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, found that about one in 1,000 agents was dismissed for serious misconduct or criminal offenses by the FBI during the period examined, from 1986 to 1999. The average was between eight and nine per year. ...

It was only provided to legislators in July 2003, months after it was requested, and was accompanied by a Justice Department letter urging that it be kept confidential.

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Senator Chuck Grassley released the report to a small number of corporate news media outlets, but his office refused to even answer The Memory Hole's requests for this report. Nonetheless, I've obtained a partial copy.

The entire report is not here, but some the most revealing parts are present, including seven pages' worth of cases in which FBI agents were perpetrating murder, real-estate fraud, shoplifting, rape of a subordinate employee, spouse-shooting, child molestation, bribery, extortion, drug-dealing, crack-smoking, drunk driving, leaking classified information to "a foreign intelligence agency," masturbating in public, and "calling sex hotlines with Bureau phones while on duty," among other activities.

Related:

Sen. Grassley's press release about the report

FBI Assistant Director Cassandra Chandler responds to the report and Sen. Grassley's related criticisms

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