Allan Pinkerton person
also: Pinkerton, Alan Pinkerton, Allard Pinkerton
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Claims (7)
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
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
Allan Pinkerton member_of
Freemasons host_asserted
“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
Allan Pinkerton headed
Inter-Services Intelligence documented
“and the abolitionist movement, both good and bad abolitionists, he gets appointed as the head of the Union Intelligence Service. That's why it started with Washington spies. These are Lincoln spies. Now, the story is that he headed off an a…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 1:07:33
Lafayette Baker succeeded
Allan Pinkerton documented
“So, Alan Pinkerton resigned his post in protest towards the end of 1862 after McClellan was relieved of command following the Battle of Antietam. Afterwards, the Union Intelligence Service would be taken over by military officer Lafayette B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 47:15
Allan Pinkerton removed_from_power
Inter-Services Intelligence documented
“So, Alan Pinkerton resigned his post in protest towards the end of 1862 after McClellan was relieved of command following the Battle of Antietam. Afterwards, the Union Intelligence Service would be taken over by military officer Lafayette B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 47:15
Allan Pinkerton overbilled_or_diverted
George B. McClellan host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 42:03
Mentions (10)
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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…
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And as early as 1844, he was working for the Chicago abolitionist leaders. Now, what have I said about these abolitionists? But he might have been a true abolitionist, Alan Pinkerton. He had a home in a place called Dundee, Illinois, and it…
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Interestingly enough, Pinkerton was very good friends with none other than John Brown. Hmm. All right. So how does he become a detective? He comes across a band of counterfeiters. He's out in the woods looking for wood for his barrels, sees…
▶ 1:04:27
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…
▶ 1:06:58
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…
▶ 1:08:37
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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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…
▶ 41:35
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…
▶ 48:10
Just like the international syndicate today, everybody gets rich off of war, except for the poor damn bastards that have to fight it. Alan Pinkerton himself had been struggling prior to the conflict, but somehow got rich off of war. Imagine…
▶ 48:39
made out like a bandit. As his efforts heading a wartime intelligence network was so disastrous that nearly a century later, an in-house agency history felt the need to apologize for the founder's shortcomings as a spy. Well, I don't think …