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Book: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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  1. David Grann _ Killers of the Flower Moon:

    In 1850 Allan Pinkerton founded the first American private detective agency; in advertisements, the company motto, "We Never Sleep" was inscribed under a large, unblinking Masonic-like eye, which gave rise to the term "private eye".... William J. Burns was an avid user of a Dictograph- a primitive listening device that could be concealed in anything from a clock to a chandelier.... Just as Allan Pinkerton, in the nineteenth century was known as the eye, Burns, In the twentieth century had become "the ear".
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  2. David Grann _ Killers of the Flower Moon:

    All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. -Don DeLillo, Libra"
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  3. David Grann _ Killers of the Flower Moon:

    A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. -Don DeLillo, Libra
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