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Why are FBI agents sometimes referred to as "G-men?"?

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"G man" or "government man!"

In FBI mythology, the nickname is held to have originated during the arrest of gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly by agents of the Division of Investigation, a forerunner of the FBI, in September 1933.

Finding himself unarmed, Kelly supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men! Don't shoot, G-Men!"

This event is dramatized in the 1959 film, The FBI Story, where its somewhat implausible quality is in no way diminished.

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The "G" stands for "government."

Mr. Goodhi

Because they work for the government..

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