FBI Director Kash Patel announced the permanent closure of the J. Edgar Hoover building, the bureau's headquarters since 1975, and its relocation to the nearby Reagan Building, citing safety and modernization concerns. The move involves scrapping a previous plan for a new headquarters and reassigning some staff to field offices. The timeline for the transition and upgrades to the Reagan Building were not provided.
The FBI is permanently closing its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, Director Kash Patel announced on Friday. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the move on social media Friday.
According to Patel, the move is an effort to move the bureau into a safer, more modern facility."When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn't open until 2035," Patel said. "We scrapped that plan."The Hoover Building has been the FBI's headquarters since 1975. The building was first opened a year earlier. Prior to the Hoover building, the FBI's main offices were located in the Department of Justice building.According to Patel, the FBI will be moving its headquarters to the nearby Reagan Building. That building, Patel said, also needs some safety and infrastructure upgrades, but the FBI will move in once those upgrades are completed.While most of the FBI headquarters staff will move to the new building, Patel said that several others will be reassigned to the field.Patel did not give any timeline for those upgrades, or for when the Hoover building will be permanently closed.
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