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Pin·ker·ton (p

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n), Allan 1819-1884.

Scottish-born American detective. His agency was notorious for breaking strikes and disrupting labor efforts to unionize.

Pinkerton [ˈpɪŋkətən]

(Biographies / Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884) M, USnational of birth: Scottish, CRIME AND POLICING: private detective, MISC: intelligence agent) Allan. 1819-84, US private detective, born in Scotland. He founded the first detective agency in the US (1850) and organized an intelligence system for the Federal States of America (1861)

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