Allan Pinkerton
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title:
Allan Pinkerton
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Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General George B. McClellan of the Army of the Potomac – with military intelligence, including extremely inaccurate enemy troop strength numbers. After the war, his agents playe
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Scottish-American detective and spy (1819–1884)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton
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2002-04-08T05:11:40Z
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2024-09-08T23:13:11Z
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