앨런 핑커톤

소개

앨런 핑커톤(Allan J. Pinkerton, 1819년 8월 25일~1884년 7월 1일)은 스코틀랜드 출신의 미국의 사립탐정, 스파이이다. 링컨 대통령의 경호원이었으며, 1850년 핑커톤 탐정 회사를 설립했다.

Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the plot in 1861 to assassinate then 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 played a significant role as strikebreakers – in particular during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 – a role that Pinkerton men would continue to play after the death of their founder.