Pinkerton (detective agency) Pinkerton (detective agency) Pinkerton, founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in 1850 and currently a subsidiary of Securitas AB. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War. Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work. Pinkerton was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power. During the labor strikes
We Used to Wait We Used to Wait "We Used to Wait" is the first UK single from Arcade Fire's third album "The Suburbs", following "Ready to Start", which was the first US single. It was released on August 1, 2010 in the UK. The song was used in an experimental project, "The Wilderness Downtown", an interactive music video developed by Google Creative Lab and Chris Milk, to experiment and exploit HTML 5 and the Google Chrome web browser. It figures prominently in the location-based audiovisual web experience and the name of the project is taken from a line in the song. Rolling Stone