Alan Pinkerton Quotes
It has been fully determined that the assassination should take place at Calvert Street.
Pinkerton worked out a plan to spirit Lincoln through Baltimore where he had to change trains.
Alan Pinkerton, 1819–1884, Head of Civil War Union Intelligence, America’s First Private Detective, Conclusion about the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore on his way to assume the Presidency in Washington, January 1861
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The motivations and willingness to die of the suicide bomber is not unique to Islamic terrorists. On occasion our CIA has used the technique. Official CIA instructions on “lost assassination” were distributed within the agency and sometimes to our “allies” who we were training.
See Robert F. Kennedy for a later expression of this sentiment. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
See Banjamin Disraeli for an earlier expression of this idea.
O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!
Otis and his paper were virulently anti-labor. See {617172} .
The reference was to Iraq president Sadaam Hussein. The CIA had determined his location and to implement the George W. Bush administration’s policy of regime change, the Air Force had been ordered to send two Stealth Bombers with “bunker buster” bombs to assassinate Sadaam. The mission was completed flawlessly and both planes hit the target destroying it completely. However, it turned out that the CIA intelligence was inaccurate, and Sadaam was not at the location. This quotation is often used to illustrate the problem of believing early action reports and the fallibility of CIA intelligence at the time.
Allan J. Pinkerton was a Scottish–American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
