The Microdot Gang: The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World

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On 1 December 1977, officers searched Kemp's cottage for a second time and dug up a large plastic box that contained 1.3kg of LSD crystal - enough to create 6.5 million doses. A doll used by a German spy to smuggle microdot photographs to Nazi Germany until the spy's arrest in 1942. ( FBI collection) Goldberg, Emanuel (13 August 1916). "A new process of micro-photography". British Journal of Photography. 73 (3458): 462–465.

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Episode three of the LSD saga, charts the launch of Operation Julie - an unprecedented police operation which aims to bring down the Microdot Gang. For detective Stephen Bentley it means a life-changing mission, as he's sent deep undercover... to become a hippy. If Zero is killed, he will drop Satchel Charges. The "remote control" he has is actually the Detonator for the Satchel Charges. As Dai Rees and Terry Stokes gathered crucial evidence of the production side of the LSD ring other officers were closing in on the distribution side. Sometimes, about 1 of 10 of Zero's models is missing when you drive at his place. There's another model instead, Zero, and the game will crash. This glitch occurs also in some other missions, but specifically in this mission.There were mixed feelings on the other side of the law. Despite his pride in the men and women who had broken one of the biggest drug rings in history there was sadness too as Dai Rees watched those he had brought to justice sentenced. A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular and around 1 millimetre (0.039in) in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester or metal. The name comes from the fact that the microdots have often been about the size and shape of a typographical dot, such as a period or the tittle of a lowercase i or j. Microdots are, fundamentally, a steganographic approach to message protection. Busted trying to smuggle cannabis into Canada, Thomas traded information in an attempt to win a lighter sentence. Naming Kemp, Bott, Solomon and a “man called Henry”, he shared his knowledge of the “biggest acid lab in the world”. Dwayne: Ah yeah, cool man. Uh I've got like some shit to take care of first though. So uh, you tell me where you guys are going to be at and I'll meet you dudes there. 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.

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She accepted that some people had expressed concern about the company producing a play that focused on criminal activity. “But I think most local people are excited. Everyone has a story about Operation Julie. I spoke to someone the other day who said they were conceived on Julie LSD. Other people tell the tale of Bob Dylan coming here, though I haven’t met anyone who actually saw him.” 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 also instructed two undercover officers to infiltrate the small community of Llanddewi Brefi to target Alston Hughes. [4] London connection [ edit ] A popular article on espionage by J. Edgar Hoover in the Reader's Digest in 1946 attributed invention of microdots to "the famous Professor Zapp at the Technical University Dresden". [6] However, there never was a Professor Zapp at that university and microdot historian William White has denounced Hoover's article as a "concoction of semitruths and overt disinformation".Operation Julie: How I infiltrated a drugs gang". BBC News. 2 October 2016 . Retrieved 2 October 2016. High tech anti-theft dots to help South Lake Tahoe Police". South Tahoe Now . Retrieved 17 August 2018. Bott, Christine; Hayes, Catherine (25 June 2021). The Untold Story of Christine Bott. Barnham Broom, England, United Kingdom: ktazze. ISBN 9781838338862.

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Jay, Mike. Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. London: Yale University Press, 2019 In the 1970s it's estimated that around 60% of the world's LSD came from one place: Wales. This is the story of the Microdot Gang - a ragtag group of chemists, dealers, businessmen and hippy dreamers. They believed that acid had the power to save the world. CJ: I'm opening a garage in Doherty, by the waste ground. You know, car mods, lowriders, all that shit. You down? The Stones and Jimi Hendrix liked a wild Welsh weekend, and there are apocryphal anecdotes of Bob Dylan staying for six weeks and enjoying the mellifluous poetry of Welsh-speaking farmers’ conversations.

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All except The Truth walk into Carl's garage, now including Dwayne. Cesar and Kendl are already in there.)

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Once I’d met him a few times I realized he had a trove of stories about himself and others and the scene generally and, more importantly, he loved to tell them. I also realized that Smiles’ experiences and stories represented, in macrocosm, the lives and experiences of many people in the drug culture of the Sixties and Seventies and that readers would closely identify with his experiences and adventures. Jethro: Hey there Truth dude! ( sits in the Emperor) Oh man, do I owe you? Coz I swear I paid for that weed, dude!A three-part television drama, called Operation Julie, was made by Tyne Tees Television and broadcast on ITV in 1985, following the events of the case from the police point of view. It was directed by Bob Mahoney. We don’t have a statute of limitations over here, sadly, and so I made the decision to draw Smiles’ story to a close, with that cliff-hanger ending, in about 1990. It’s highly unlikely the UK police would have been bothered or would take any action, as it’s effectively all anecdote with no real evidence. But I just wanted to be certain. And, I suppose, by ending it in 1990 it preserves and adds to the mystique that surrounds Smiles. CJ: ( explains to Dwayne, Jethro and Zero) A week of hard work and we'll transform this place. ( turns to the garage) Hey, Cesar! Come over here.