Amedeo Polignani

Amedeo Polignani (died 1932) was a New York Police Department (NYPD) detective an original member of the Bomb Squad who went undercover in 1915 during the anarchist age of terrorism and broke up an anarchist plot to commence "a reign of terror" in the United States commencing with the bombing of St. Patrick's Cathedral and the assassination Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. The bomb plotters were convicted after a jury trial and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment