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The Truth: ( as Dwayne arrives close) Uh, my friend Carl here is opening a chop shop. Jethro's in, how about you? A doll used by a German spy to smuggle microdot photographs to Nazi Germany until the spy's arrest in 1942. ( FBI collection) On 26 March 1977, after 13 months of surveillance, Operation Julie officers swooped on 87 homes in Wales and England, including Fielding's home in Binfield Heath. [5] The gang leaders were caught and a total of 120 suspects were arrested. Jethro: Hey there Truth dude! ( sits in the Emperor) Oh man, do I owe you? Coz I swear I paid for that weed, dude!
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The raids focused on two acid manufacturing centres: one hidden in an isolated farmhouse in deepest Wales, the other in a suburban house on a leafy residential street in south-west London. Between them they supplied acid to most of the UK, Europe, America and beyond. Tabs bearing their logo were recovered as far away as Australia. Ken Kesey volunteered as an experimental subject at the Veterans Hospital in Menlo Park, where he was given LSD, mescaline, Ditran and AMT. The Truth: Carl here is opening a garage around the corner. I told him you're the man to speak to when it comes to electronics. The biggest drug bust in British history occurred in the early hours of 25 March 1977: 800 officers made 120 arrests and seized a staggering 6,000,000 tabs of LSD.Comedian Paul Merton recalled Operation Julie as the inspiration behind his "Policeman on Acid" sketch in his autobiography Only When I Laugh. [11]
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While Dai Rees was grappling with the drug issues of west Wales in the early 70s, Richard Kemp had stumbled upon a method of creating the purest LSD the world had ever seen. Operation Julie was one of the biggest drugs investigations the world has ever seen. It involved 800 officers drawn from 11 police forces who went undercover for more than a year to break an LSD ring that spread through 100 countries, provided 60% of global supply and was worth – in today’s money – half a billion pounds. In 2022, the BBC developed a podcast based on the books, and other contributions, called Acid Dream. [18] The podcast was a finalist in the BBC audio drama awards in 2023.Lee, Martin A. & Bruce Shlain (1992). Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Press. pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8021-3062-4. What initially attracted you to the figureof Smiles? How did you know that the story of his life was worthy of a biography?
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