Pinkerton National Detective Agency organization
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U.S. Congress dissolved
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
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“After the Homestead Massacre tarnished the Pinkerton name Congress in indignation over the incident forbid (27 Stat 368 591) the further utilization of these agents and effectively ended the use of private detectives by the Federal governme…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.79
Pinkerton National Detective Agency operated_in
Homestead, Pennsylvania documented
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“On July 6 1892 strikers at the CarnegieSteel Companyplant in Homestead Pennsylvania fired upon two barges on the MonongahelaRiver containing some 300 Pinkerton detectives…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.79
E. H. Weitzel hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
document
“However, local CF&I fuel manager E. H. Weitzel retained Pinkerton detectives in the Southern Colorado coalfields to monitor the collective organizing of miners in the region.…”
source: url — Colorado Coalfield War · p.1
Benjamin H. Brewster did_business_with
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
document
“After the Homestead Massacre tarnished the Pinkerton name Congress in indignation over the incident forbid (27 Stat 368 591) the further utilization of these agents and effectively ended the use of private detectives by the Federal governme…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.79
Allan Pinkerton founded
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
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“Allan Pinkerton who had worked for the War Department under President Lincoln founded a private detective agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.384
Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded
Allan Pinkerton documented
“McClellan to provide intelligence for his army. When McClellan became the Union general, the Pinkertons took over much of the intelligence functions for the Union army, in addition to forming an early version of the Secret Service to protec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 41:35
Securitas AB funded
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
“The Pinkerton company was bought in 1999 by a Swedish company called Securitas AB for $384 million. And I'm going to do one last screen share because the Pinkertons are still with us to this very day. Yeah. Oops. Hang on. Where is it? I jus…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:23:23
Allan Pinkerton founded
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
“Alan Pinkerton meets a Chicago lawyer by the name of Edward Rucker, and they formed the Northwestern Police Agency, which then became the Pinkerton Agency. Where it gets interesting, where did they meet? Oh, in a local Masonic Hall. Yeah, t…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:04:27
Spain hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“Because it's going to end up being your thugs. It's the people that goes out and rounds up anyone who disagrees with the dictator or whoever they've installed in the government. It becomes a nationalized terrorist organization to thwart dis…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:12:07
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“to suppress a revolution in Cuba. Interestingly enough, these rebels in Cuba were fighting to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote. But the Pinkertons, who were abolitionists, right, went in there to crush that revolution to prol…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:12:38
Philadelphia and Reading Company hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“Because they were killing people. Yeah. So let's talk about that. The first big one was called the Molly Maguires. This was a secret society of Irish coal miners. Philadelphia and the Reading Railroads hired the Pinkertons to investigate th…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:14:18
Henry Clay Frick hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“was if not the strongest one of the strongest unions in the United States so they decide because they were being paid pennies a day which is the exact same scenario we get down in Chile when they overthrew Salvador Allende for the copper mi…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:16:18
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers host_asserted
“The Pinkerton detectives were sent in to basically close, lock out the union. There's violence, a bunch of people killed, shots are fired. The Pinkerton agents end up coming across on a ferry and they're outnumbered. Long story short, 16 pe…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:15:18
Pinkerton National Detective Agency assassinated
Hugh O'Day host_asserted
“Because this was a, there were even children there, just put it that way. So they start firing on the crowd. And the first one that they killed was Hugh O'Day. He was 23 years old.…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:17:15
Ford Motor Company hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“Pinkertons are hired to break the union at Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. Interesting. Something called the Battle of the Overpass. So the United Auto Workers had just recently organized workers at all of Ford's competitors…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:20:00
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
United Auto Workers host_asserted
“The UAW was going to hand out leaflets at this overpass in front of the main gate in the view of Ford's 90,000 employees. Before the UAW could begin, they were attacked by the Pinkerton's detectives and the Dearborn police. And that created…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:20:26
Securitas AB funded
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“Pinkertons would evolve through the 1960s. In 1960, they took the name detective out of the name and became just a Pinkerton agency. Their focus would shift towards threat intelligence, risk management, executive protection, and actually ac…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:23:20
Pinkerton National Detective Agency operated_in
New Orleans documented
“Pinkertons would continue to work for the Union during the Civil War, probably as spies. However, being dispatched to New Orleans during the military occupation of Louisiana. Maybe that's why Louisiana is so corrupt. On the whole, the Civil…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 52:47
Henry Clay Frick hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
“on Carnegie's behalf, hires 300 security guards known as Pinkerton Guards. Okay, go ahead. They're just one of the original kind of big clubs that all of these industrialists used to do their bully work. Exactly. And that's who Frick hires …”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady @ 18:22
Allan Pinkerton headed
Pinkerton National Detective Agency documented
“McClellan to provide intelligence for his army. When McClellan became the Union general, the Pinkertons took over much of the intelligence functions for the Union army, in addition to forming an early version of the Secret Service to protec…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 46:34
Pinkerton National Detective Agency protected
Abraham Lincoln documented
“first rose to prominence, excuse me, when it enlisted, when it was enlisted to protect the president-elect Abraham Lincoln as he traveled across country by train. Allegedly, a plot had been uncovered to assassinate Lincoln then, though ther…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 46:05
Pinkerton National Detective Agency spied_on
George B. McClellan documented
“first rose to prominence, excuse me, when it enlisted, when it was enlisted to protect the president-elect Abraham Lincoln as he traveled across country by train. Allegedly, a plot had been uncovered to assassinate Lincoln then, though ther…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 46:05
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
Homestead Strike documented
“It gets interesting. They can't really get to the plant because there's so many steel workers there. They're outnumbered. There's 300 guards. So they take a ferry boat down the river and they're trying to stop at the dock of the plant. Unfo…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady @ 18:52
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
Haymarket Massacre host_asserted
“Because what do these robber barons use to enforce their will? The Pinkerton agents and the Pinkerton detectives. Yeah. There was no FBI or CIA back then. You had the Pinkertons. And they occasionally worked for the government, but they usu…”
▶ The Shadow State 56 The Kingmaker Mark Hanna @ 25:19
Pinkerton National Detective Agency spied_on
Molly Maguires documented
“A guy by the name of James McParlin infiltrates the Irish coal miners and basically exposes them to such a degree that the organization just kind of disappears. So that was espionage. Then we had the Homestead Strike, which you and I talked…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:14:25
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers documented
“The Pinkerton detectives were sent in to basically close, lock out the union. There's violence, a bunch of people killed, shots are fired. The Pinkerton agents end up coming across on a ferry and they're outnumbered. Long story short, 16 pe…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:14:58
Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack
United Auto Workers documented
“The UAW was going to hand out leaflets at this overpass in front of the main gate in the view of Ford's 90,000 employees. Before the UAW could begin, they were attacked by the Pinkerton's detectives and the Dearborn police. And that created…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:20:05
U.S. Department of Justice recruited
Pinkerton National Detective Agency book_quoted
“federal courts, the Postal's Inspection Investigation Fraud Unit, Secret Service, and Special Agency Service in Customs to track counterfeiting and other revenue-related crimes. As a result, the Department of Justice would continue to rely …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 13:17
Pinkerton National Detective Agency recruited
George B. McClellan documented
“first rose to prominence when it was enlisted to protect the president-elect, Abraham Lincoln, as he traveled across country by train. Allegedly, a plot had been uncovered to assassinate Lincoln then, though there was no conclusive evidence…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 41:06
Allan Pinkerton founded
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“I'll set a little bit of background, just jump in wherever. I'm going to do this chronologically. Okay. So who are the Pinkerton detectives? Started by a guy by the name of Alan Pinkerton. Born 1819 and died in 1884. Pinkerton is a Scottish…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:03:04
U.S. Department of Justice funded
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“Well, the Department of Justice couldn't do that, so they subcontracted all that work to Pinkerton. And that's when they became the FBI. Kind of a big deal. It's a huge big deal. And by this time, Pinkerton's son, William and Robert, are al…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:10:51
Rockefeller financed_via
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“The CIA, if you went back to the 30s, where Sullivan and Cromwell was an actual law firm, and you had like Hill and Knowlton, the PR firm, and you had Pinkerton's, which was private intel. And then you had all of those things were basically…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 1:11:05
Pinkerton National Detective Agency supplied_arms_to
Gray and Company speculative
“Yes, thank you. The Pinkerton. They would have had their own South American. They would have hired the Pinkertons to cut down on its labor. I can almost guarantee the Pinkertons were there in Peru. Yeah. So here's a fun one. Caesar of asset…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Society Societies @ 54:22
Mentions (68)
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duties until about a decade or two later. Their first job, the reason the Secret Service works for the Department of Treasury is because they were about stopping counterfeits. And that's why every investigation into counterfeiting is done b…
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Also, wasn't there a certain kingmaker we talked about last week who's from Ohio? Yeah. All right. So let's talk about Sam B. Chase real quick, and then we'll jump into Pinkerton's. He becomes a big anti-slavery activist and lawyer for defe…
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He tried to get the Liberal Republican Party nomination in 1872, and then he dies in 1873. But there's your guy, Salmon P. Chase, one of my biggest villains in history. So let's talk about the Pinkerton detectives who were there for all of …
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Alan Pinkerton meets a Chicago lawyer by the name of Edward Rucker, and they formed the Northwestern Police Agency, which then became the Pinkerton Agency. Where it gets interesting, where did they meet? Oh, in a local Masonic Hall. Yeah, t…
▶ 1:05:04
little bit of a prelude. Scottish Rites Freemasons are really interesting. Remember we was talking about you hide a secret society inside a secret society? The Scottish Rites people are very, very hardcore, very much into their Puritanism a…
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And can I share the actual picture of the Pinkertons, if you guys can see that? It's the all-seeing eye. Yeah, I've got it here on screen. Let me do this. I'll give you a better picture. Yeah. And I'm going to tell the story of where that c…
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This is where you get the whole concept of a private eye. This is it. Yes. That's where the private eye comes from. Yes. All right. So I'll tell that story real quick. Oh, real quick. So after he becomes a Pinkerton agency, Pinkerton uses h…
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And she used all kinds of tradecraft, using disguises and related tactics. But it required her to stay awake throughout the entire journey. And that's where they got the motto, We Never Sleep. It was because of Kate Worney. Cool story, huh?…
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They were a big part of, you know, the Union intelligence. And these are not nice guys, by the way. They are tough. Interestingly, historians looking back have been very critical of the intelligence that Pinkerton provided to the Union army…
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And so bad intelligence is really bad. And apparently he wasn't very good at it. So a little historical side note. So after the war, what do the Pinkertons do? Well, one of the first things they're doing is they're pursuing train robbers li…
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Never got him. And he actually ended up stop chasing him because he just gave up. The Pinkerton detectives. Now, if you picture the detectives, these guys in these long trench coats, top hats, carrying a rifle, you know, rifle, a shotgun un…
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to the new Department of Justice to form a sub organization devoted to, and this is a quote, the detection and prosecution of those guilty of violating federal law. Well, the Department of Justice couldn't do that. So they subcontracted all…
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because it's going to end up being your thugs. It's the people that goes out and rounds up anyone who disagrees with the dictator or whoever they've installed in the government. It becomes a nationalized terrorist organization to thwart dis…
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Because they were killing people. Yeah. So let's talk about that. The first big one was called the Molly Maguires. This was a secret society of Irish coal miners. Philadelphia and the Reading Railroads hired the Pinkertons to investigate th…
▶ 1:14:25
A guy by the name of James McParlin infiltrates the Irish coal miners and basically exposes them to such a degree that the organization just kind of disappears. So that was espionage. Then we had the Homestead Strike, which you and I talked…
▶ 1:14:58
The Pinkerton detectives were sent in to basically close, lock out the union. There's violence, a bunch of people killed, shots are fired. The Pinkerton agents end up coming across on a ferry and they're outnumbered. Long story short, 16 pe…
▶ 1:15:57
was, if not the strongest, one of the strongest unions in the United States. So they decide because they were being paid pennies a day, which is the exact same scenario we get down in Chile when they overthrew Salvador Allende for the coppe…
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They realize that they're not going to because they're grossly outnumbered by the amount of strikers that were there. And some of the strikers were armed as well. So ended up with scores of people injured. And the governor ends up having to…
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Yeah, and these are the people who just were so proud of ending slavery, and then they gave all these Irish immigrants and Chinese railroad workers basically slave wages. Correct. It was a better business model to do it the way they did it.…
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The UAW was going to hand out leaflets at this overpass in front of the main gate in the view of Ford's 90,000 employees. Before the UAW could begin, they were attacked by the Pinkerton's detectives and the Dearborn police. And that created…
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and destroying them. And I want to mention one thing about that Lafayette committee. They were found, when they investigated the Pinkertons, they found machine guns, grenades, and an arsenal that would rival any state guard at the time. Thi…
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which is where we saw the rise of the FBI and other national police agencies, which we're not allowed to have, according to this. Pinkertons would evolve through the 1960s. In 1960, they took the name detective out of the name and became ju…
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The Pinkerton company was bought in 1999 by a Swedish company called Securitas AB for $384 million. And I'm going to do one last screen share because the Pinkertons are still with us to this very day. Yeah. Oops. Hang on. Where is it? I jus…
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primary duties as they were created originally was divvied up into the FBI and the CIA and basically federalized so that we pay for them. Because keep in mind, and this goes back to my overall model where the oligarchs had private intellige…
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Very much so. Craig Wolf and Chad, I believe the deep state goes way back before there was a state 100%. All right. It's just modern day feudalism. That's what they're trying to get back to. Here's the Pinkerton's website. Our story, our ro…
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Let's say we invented the mugshot. We incorporated. That's all their history. They don't talk about any of the bad stuff. Yeah, they created the mugshot so they could start intelligence files on people. Yeah, that's very much so. This is ev…
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The CIA, if you went back to the 30s, where Sullivan and Cromwell was an actual law firm, and you had like Hill and Knowlton, the PR firm, and you had Pinkerton's, which was private intel. And then you had all of those things were basically…
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and how they you know had tends to be in bed with the mafia and certain left-wing causes and i read about european history and let me start to really be anti-union yeah here's the newspaper with my grandfather and he made a pretty good case…
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labor unions because you had a monopoly. You're the only guy. And it didn't matter if you worked in my shop or if you're in the steel industry or you worked in the Pittsburgh versus, you know, whatever, because it was a monopoly. You're all…
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The Pinkertons were hired. Remember the story about the Sears and Roebuck guy in Chicago that had an entire fleet of women that cut out articles and pasted them in folders? We found the Los Angeles Police Department in a lawsuit, was caught…
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to test all of these wonderful devices on. They were field exercises to bring them all home. He mentioned specifically Paraguay, Nicaragua, and of course, the Philippines. And let's see, there was one other thing. Oh, this was another compa…
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and you see a fundamental shift in the way the United States is going to wage war. In actuality, the global war on terror brought to light a process that had been going on for quite some time, again, all the way back to the days of the pira…
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first rose to prominence when it was enlisted to protect the president-elect, Abraham Lincoln, as he traveled across country by train. Allegedly, a plot had been uncovered to assassinate Lincoln then, though there was no conclusive evidence…
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McClellan to provide intelligence for his army. When McClellan became the Union general, the Pinkertons took over much of the intelligence functions for the Union army, in addition to forming an early version of the Secret Service to protec…
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He consistently overestimated the Confederacy troop strength, contributing to McClellan's hesitancy to engage his opponents. Huh. That's interesting. Wonder if that was on purpose. It always is. Pinkerton's loyalty. Well, and you know, it's…
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In 1865, the Intelligence Service became the modern Secret Service, firmly under the control of the U.S. government. Pinkertons would continue to work for the Union during the Civil War, probably as spies, however, being dispatched to New O…
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So you guys know that we kind of left off with, we had just talked about the Pinkertons and these private detective slash spy networks and how they had been used prior to World War II. And keep in mind how this works.…
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pay for it. So if you go back and you do the research, you have companies like the Pinkertons and some of the others we're going to get into. And the companies had to pay them to do their corporate espionage. So what World War II did was it…
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federal courts, the Postal's Inspection Investigation Fraud Unit, Secret Service, and Special Agency Service in Customs to track counterfeiting and other revenue-related crimes. As a result, the Department of Justice would continue to rely …
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to 1,700 employees backed by 350,000 badge-carrying civilian agents around the country. This sudden massive rise in intelligence capability ensured that the government would be forced to look to private institutions for help, you know, like…
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if he was replaced by a gangster. At the other end of the spectrum, there were nationwide security companies, some of which were called Burns Security and Pinkerton. They had their origins as national detective agencies and were principally…
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government contracting of private military companies. A federal judge thus ordered an extension to the AGES current contract for six months. Scott based his protest on what he believed was a violation of an 1893 law. Each time the governmen…
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originally passed to stop the government from hiring mercenaries as strike breakers. Pinkerton's armed employees were best known for their role in crushing trade unions, mainly in the steel and coal industries, by working as armed security.…
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Because what do these robber barons use to enforce their will? The Pinkerton agents and the Pinkerton detectives. Yeah. There was no FBI or CIA back then. You had the Pinkertons. And they occasionally worked for the government, but they usu…
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Pinkerton was involved in many of these types of labor disputes that all ended up with people dying on behalf of the oligarchs. And you notice what Warhamster just said. They labeled the people, the labor activists who were involved in…
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And that's kind of the way it works. Where did you say this family originated from? They're Scotland. And do you know Pinkerton is too? Yeah, let's leave Pinkerton hanging because that's a big part of next week. Okay. We're going to go to a…
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And I just want to draw the link before we do transition. You guys remember my model of how these companies had to pay for their private intelligence and paramilitary force. And then they offshoot it after World War II into the CIA and the …
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of that linkage up there because these these oligarchs had to pay pinkerton to do this and these are their higher jack boots on the ground um to get their way and they don't care how many people they kill to do it and that cycle is exactly …
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But the FBI is a bit of an intelligence agency in itself. But all this stuff, as the colonel said, was done by private parties. And who was actually supposed to be supervising this stuff in the 1850s and 60s? Well, that would have been the …
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He tried to get the Liberal Republican Party nomination in 1872, and then he dies in 1873. But there's your guy, Salmon P. Chase, one of my biggest villains in history. So let's talk about the Pinkerton detectives who were there for all of …
▶ 1:04:47
Alan Pinkerton meets a Chicago lawyer by the name of Edward Rucker, and they formed the Northwestern Police Agency, which then became the Pinkerton Agency. Well, it gets interesting. Where did they meet? Oh, in a local Masonic Hall. Yeah, t…
▶ 1:06:54
It's the all-seeing eye. Yeah, I've got it here on screen. Let me do this. I'll give you a better picture. Yeah. And I'm going to tell the story of where that came from, too. But here it is. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency with a quot…
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I'll tell that story real quick. Oh, real quick. So after he becomes a Pinkerton agency, Pinkerton uses his own skills in espionage, starts attracting clients, and they're growing. And eventually, because they're such big backers of Lincoln…
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looking back, have been very critical of the intelligence that Pinkerton provided to the Union Army. He said he would exaggerate troop movements. And if you tell a Union general that the South has twice as many troops as they actually have,…
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One of the first things they're doing is they're pursuing train robbers, like the Reno Gang, the Wild Bunch, which is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Younger Brothers they got. Pinkerton pursued Jesse James, but never got him. And h…
▶ 1:10:51
Well, the Department of Justice couldn't do that, so they subcontracted all that work to Pinkerton. And that's when they became the FBI. Kind of a big deal. It's a huge big deal. And by this time, Pinkerton's son, William and Robert, are al…
▶ 1:12:07
Because it's going to end up being your thugs. It's the people that goes out and rounds up anyone who disagrees with the dictator or whoever they've installed in the government. It becomes a nationalized terrorist organization to thwart dis…
▶ 1:14:18
Because they were killing people. Yeah. So let's talk about that. The first big one was called the Molly Maguires. This was a secret society of Irish coal miners. Philadelphia and the Reading Railroads hired the Pinkertons to investigate th…
▶ 1:15:18
The Pinkerton detectives were sent in to basically close, lock out the union. There's violence, a bunch of people killed, shots are fired. The Pinkerton agents end up coming across on a ferry and they're outnumbered. Long story short, 16 pe…
▶ 1:16:18
was if not the strongest one of the strongest unions in the United States so they decide because they were being paid pennies a day which is the exact same scenario we get down in Chile when they overthrew Salvador Allende for the copper mi…
▶ 1:20:00
Pinkertons are hired to break the union at Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. Interesting. Something called the Battle of the Overpass. So the United Auto Workers had just recently organized workers at all of Ford's competitors…
▶ 1:20:26
The UAW was going to hand out leaflets at this overpass in front of the main gate in the view of Ford's 90,000 employees. Before the UAW could begin, they were attacked by the Pinkerton's detectives and the Dearborn police. And that created…
▶ 1:22:17
they were found when they investigated the Pinkertons, they found machine guns, grenades, and an arsenal that would rival any state guard at the time. This was a war machine to mow down Americans who wanted legitimate reform from the robber…
▶ 1:23:20
Pinkertons would evolve through the 1960s. In 1960, they took the name detective out of the name and became just a Pinkerton agency. Their focus would shift towards threat intelligence, risk management, executive protection, and actually ac…
▶ 1:23:52
for $384 million. And I'm going to do one last screen share because the Pinkertons are still with us to this very day. Hang on. Where is it? I just had it. Hang on. Give me one more second. My apologies. I thought it was more organized than…
▶ 1:24:59
It's just modern-day feudalism. That's what they're trying to get back to. Here's the Pinkerton's website. Our story. Our roots trace back to 1850. But if you go through this whole history, you're not going to see anything about busting uni…
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Of that period of time, you know, were they better off than slaves? They'd have an argument. It was not an easy life. They worked like 18-hour days, sometimes six days a week, back-breaking labor. Couldn't organize. If you tried to form a u…
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Pilgrim Society seeks to promote the special relationship in, get ready for this, in writing. She wrote this in 1912. Intelligence, military, and diplomacy. This is exactly what we've been talking about since day one. And I find it funny th…