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The #FBI’s September #ArtifactoftheMonth is a car that one of the 9/11 hijackers drove to Dulles International Airport on September 11, 2001. After airport police reported the car to @FBIWFO, a search revealed it belonged to Nawaf al-Hazmi. ow.ly/GODn50BoBGN 
Investigators learned that another Flight 77 hijacker, Khalid al-Mihdhar, purchased the car in early 2000—around the same time he and al-Hazmi rented an apartment near San Diego. Al-Mihdhar transferred ownership of the car to al-Hazmi in May 2000.
Among the nearly four dozen items recovered from the car were documents from a flight training school, diagrams of the plane's instrument panel, and a parking lot ticket timestamped 9/11/01 7:25 a.m. Learn more about the PENTTBOM investigation at ow.ly/LAHF50BoBH.
The FBI’s June #ArtifactoftheMonth is a laptop that a Russian spy named Anna Chapman used to create a private wireless network for communicating with a Russian government official. ow.ly/o7jk50Aj6pc
The #FBI recovered the laptop during Operation Ghost Stories, an investigation into deep-cover Russian operatives in the U.S. The case against these so-called “illegals” inspired the creators of the FX series “The Americans.”
Chapman and the other spies collected information to send to Russia. They targeted colleagues and friends, seeking to develop sources in U.S. policymaking circles.
The FBI’s May #ArtifactoftheMonth is a pair of alarm clocks that were part of a car bomb that Faisal Shahzad planned to detonate in Times Square in 2010. Fortunately, the bomb never detonated, and the FBI helped catch Shahzad. ow.ly/GZzq50zNEee
📷 by Sarah Thompson/Newseum
📷 by Sarah Thompson/Newseum
On May 1, 2010, multiple citizens reported seeing smoke coming from an SUV parked near 45th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City. First responders searched the vehicle and found the two alarm clocks, as well as other components of a homemade bomb.
FBI agents joined law enforcement partners at the scene and then worked with the @NYPDnews to trace the SUV to Faisal Shahzad. To learn more about how law enforcement partnerships played a role in solving this case, visit ow.ly/GZzq50zNEee.
#FBI trivia was on @Jeopardy tonight, but we're not stumped. The #ClueCrew visited the FBI Academy to film prompts for the “FBI Quantico” category, and now the #BuCrew is here to give you more facts. Let’s play Jeopardy! #TodayOnJ
Become an agent: Drive the precision obstacle course. Take a virtual ride with this 360-degree video on the FBI Academy’s precision obstacle course. An instructor explains the types of maneuvers new agents test on behind the wheel. Watch at ow.ly/PUZd30quBWo. #TodayOnJ
New agent trainees await their turn at the Tactical Emergency Vehicle Operations Center. The training teaches drivers skills like maneuvering out of a common rear-end spinout, ramming a threatening vehicle, and backing out of an alleyway under fire. #TodayOnJ
The FBI’s March #ArtifactoftheMonth was more than just a toy—it was a tool of espionage tradecraft. A German spy used this doll to smuggle secret photographs to Nazi Germany. ow.ly/igrW50yTlwL
During World War II, spies would photograph espionage material with a camera. Then, through a special contraption of lenses, they would copy the image, reduce it in size, and imprint it on especially sensitized film, called a “microdot.” ow.ly/igrW50yTlwL
The Germans concealed microdots on letters they could mail to dead letter boxes in Europe. Some couriers returning to Europe also hid microdots on their clothes or on dolls. Learn more about the FBI's investigation into German microdot technology at w.ly/igrW50yTlwL.
The #FBI’s January #ArtifactoftheMonth is a cap left at the scene of a so-called perfect crime: #OTD in 1950, armed men stole $2.7 million in cash, checks, money orders, and other securities from a Brink’s in Boston and fled. Read about the case at ow.ly/kigL50xY7Lf.
The robbers wore caps, gloves, pea coats, and, to muffle their footsteps, rubber-soled shoes. They tied five employees’ hands behind their backs and taped their mouths and then piled the loot into bags.
Rumors from the underworld pointed suspicion at several criminal gangs, but with little evidence and few witnesses, the #FBI could not pinpoint the suspects. Were the robbers caught? Was the cash recovered? Find out at ow.ly/VLB130qagHW.
FBI trivia was on @Jeopardy tonight, but we're not stumped. The #ClueCrew visited the FBI to film prompts for the “FBI Headquarters” category, and now the #BuCrew is here to give you more facts. #TodayonJ.
J. Edgar Hoover became assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation, the #FBI's predecessor, in 1921. Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed Hoover acting director on May 10, 1924, and by year's end, Hoover became director. #TodayOnJ fbi.gov/history/direct…
The #FBI's #ArtifactoftheMonth in December 2016 was J. Edgar Hoover's fedora—a style of hat traditionally associated with the iconic G-man image. #TodayOnJ flickr.com/photos/fbi/308…
The #FBI’s December #ArtifactoftheMonth is an Eyemo, a 35mm film camera similar to the one used to conduct surveillance on the Duquesne Spy Ring. Special agents used cameras like this one to film a series of meetings between double agent William Sebold and Nazis. #History
The German Secret Service persuaded Sebold, a German-American, to spy on the U.S., but Sebold ultimately served as a double agent for the U.S. He met with Nazis in a bogus office that had hidden microphones and a two-way mirror that enabled the U.S. to secretly film the meetings.
Special Agent James E. Amos, one of the #FBI’s first African-American special agents, shadowed ringleader Frederick Joubert Duquesne during the FBI's investigation and helped bring the Duquesne Spy Ring to justice. #OurHistoryOurService
