Fbi Closes Office In Butte

The Butte office of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover’s purgatory for agents in disfavor, is no more.

The last agent was transferred this week to Boise.

Butte, a mining town high in the Rocky Mountains, once was the headquarters of the FBI’s Montana force.

But within the FBI, it was notorious as the backwater dumping ground for agents who displeased Hoover.

The FBI director reportedly thought a Butte winter would do wonders for mavericks.

After Hoover’s death, the sting went out of assignments to Butte, but the FBI took a hard look at where its agents were based.

The bureau will assign another agent to its Helena office to handle FBI matters in Butte.

The FBI’s only presence in Butte will be a technical center where investigative information is entered into bureau computers.