Operation Julie by Dick Lee & Allen Pratt

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Hardcover. Dick Lee, the man who masterminded Operation Julie, now tells the sensational story behind the world's biggest and most successful drugs investigation.
On 26 March 1977, Lee and his police team recovered 6 million doses of LSD tablets –the greatest haul of drugs the world has ever known. A mammoth squad of 800 detectives went on to arrest 120 people in dawn swoops throughout England,Wales and France. The operation unearthed £100 million worth of LSD and £800,000 hidden in Swiss bank accounts. The secret drugs ring that was man facturing enough LSD to meet the needs of half the world, had finally been cracked.
Two years earlier Lee, in command of the Thames Valley Drugs Squad, had
stumbled upon a lead indicating the existence of an LSD factory in Wales. Further investigation revealed that this was the centre of a highly sophisticated and international drug network.
Overcoming the initial reluctance of his superior officers and working on a shoestring budget, Lee and his team set out to identify and infiltrate the ringleaders and their centres of manufacture and distribution.
This is the story of a small group of British detectives whose selfless dedication and unremitting inquiries took them to the drugs underworld of London, a hippy commune in Wales, banks in Switzerland and a château in France. This is Dick Lee's story, but it is also the dramatic unfolding of the struggles, the disappointments, and the final success of the entire Operation Julie team.