Spy Company organization
also: contra-guerrillas, irregulars, Mexican Spy Company, the Forty Thieves, the spy forces
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Ethan Allen Hitchcock founded
Spy Company documented
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“thus was the Mexican Spy Company (or Spy Company or "the Forty Thieves") as it came to be known established…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.28
Zacarias Dominguez headed
Spy Company documented
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“Dominguez leader of the Spy Company…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.28
John Spooner member_of
Spy Company documented
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“the actual captain was a Virginian named Spooner who had been a member of his band…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.28
Robert Anderson worked_for
Spy Company documented
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“We have in our pay a Company of Mexicans who are called the Forty Thieves…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.29
James K. Polk funded
Spy Company reported
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“Apparently President Polk had an appropriation he could utilize for such things and it would seem that he drew on it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.29
William Mellon Hitchcock paid
Spy Company documented
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“In his diary entry of June 5 1848 Hitchcock records he was to discharge the Spy Company 'with their own consent by paying them $20 per man at Vera Cruz except the chief Domingues who will go to New Orleans.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.30
Spy Company worked_for
Winfield Scott reported
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“While the Spy Company is generally thought to have provided useful intelligence ,for General Scott its unique nature and the experience of United States armed forces in the Mexican hostilities prompt agreement with the conclusion that The W…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.30
Abraham Lincoln ordered_assassination_of
Spy Company documented
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“so in February 1862 Lincoln ordered the release on parole of all political and state prisoners except spies or those otherwise inimical to public safety…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.31
Ethan Allen Hitchcock founded
Spy Company reported
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“The only other threat to Baker's supreme command of secret service operations was the reputed organizer of the old Mexican Spy Company Ethan Allen Hitchcock…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.45