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The FBI’s director, J. Edgar Hoover—who had wielded unchecked power for decades—was furious. He saw the break-in as an existential threat to the agency's reputation and his personal authority. Hoover launched an all-out investigation to track down the perpetrators, deploying all resources—including FBI files and Xerox machine fingerprints—leaning heavily on advanced forensic techniques to identify the sources of the leaked documents.