Pinkerton National Detective Agency organization
also: Pinkerton Agency, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Pinkerton, Pinkertons, Northwestern Police Agency, Pinkerton's
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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
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
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
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 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
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
Mentions (40)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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.…