India, Dec. 27 -- FBI Director Kash Patel has announced that the J. Edgar Hoover Building is permanently closing. The building houses the FBI's main headquarters in Washington, D.C. Most FBI staff will be relocated to the existing Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, instead.

The Hoover Building has served as the agency's main headquarters since 1975.

"After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI's Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility. Working directly with President Trump and Congress, we accomplished what no one else could," Patel wrote on X.

He continued, "When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new he...