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This episode explores the rise and fall of a drug empire centered around LSD in the 1970s, focusing on Operation Julie and Henry Todd's journey.

In the late 1970's, LSD was big in Cambridge University's radical academic fringe, inspired by LSD pioneer Timothy Leary. He had a strong belief that the drug broadened the mind and could transform society and make it better for all of us. Henry Todd got very much into this scene and then started his own LSD lab, producing huge quantities of the stuff. In the episode of the UK True Crime Podcast, I look at the undercover police operation 'Operation Julie' soon had Henry Todd and others making and selling LSD under surveillance, and how Todd later made the unusual move into high altitude mountaineering. I release episodes of the UK True Crime Podcast every Tuesday and Friday, so please do join me for the next episode on Tuesday. Buy My New True Crime Content Creators Online Course https://adam-s-site-be58.thinkific.com/products/courses/true-crime-content-creation-course Watch my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Adam-uktruecrime/videos Listen/Watch the True Crime Catch Up https://audioalways.lnk.to/TrueCrimeCatchUp Find Our More About Me https://uktruecrime.com Join UK True Crime Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime Hosted on Acast. See…

People in this episode

Host: Adam

Topics covered

• LSD
• drug empire
• undercover police operation
• high altitude mountaineering
• 1970s
• Cambridge

Keywords

• LSD
• Operation Julie
• Henry Todd
• drug empire
• 1970s
• Cambridge University
• undercover police

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cambridge University

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