Victoria’s Reviews > Outsider Agent: The Extraordinary Adventures of an Immigrant and Mystic in the FBI > Status Update

While escorting Pretty Boy Floyd through a Missouri train station in 1933, criminals looking to free Floyd opened fire on the group, killing the three officers and the agent. Following a public outcry, FBI agents were given the authority to make arrests and carry weapons for the first time. By 1972, the FBI had built a full training campus at Quantico, forever linking the Bureau and the Marine Corps.; (p. 30).