FBI Leader Who Oversaw Catholic Investigation Tapped to Lead Virginia Public Safety Department

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C.

In 2021, Stanley Meador became special agent in charge at the bureau’s Richmond, Virginia, field office, which in 2023 issued a memo to agents launching an investigation into ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics. The FBI retracted the memo, though years of investigations have followed the revelation.

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