Hargreaves - Operation: Trip to Oz: Busting the Worlds Largest LSD Lab

Operation: Trip to Oz

by

Guy J. Hargreaves

Copyright 2013 by Guy J. Hargreaves

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Foreword

What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy on November 24, 1997 speaks of "Sheep, Sheepdogs & Wolves":

One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:
"Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident." This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another. Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.

Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep. I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful. For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.

"Then there are the wolves," the old war veteran said, "and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.

"Then there are sheepdogs," he went on, "and I'm a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf." If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed."

This story will take you into the world of both wolves and sheepdogs. What is the essence that makes the sheepdog hunt dangerous animals or dangerous men? In a word, it is challenge in its most essential form. Man was a hunter-gatherer for thousands of years before modern civilization appeared. Well over 99 percent of the time man has been on earth, he has been a hunter by profession. Today, very few men hunt for food in modern society as they did in the past, but the modern sheepdog hunts for evil men to protect the sheep, and for the ancestral memory of the thrill of the hunt itself. Have you ever wondered why human eyes face forward, as do those of every other land predator or bird of prey? The herbivores, the prey, like deer and cattle, have side-facing, defensive eyes. This alone, shows we are genetically qualified as predators. We may not like it, but it appears to be our heritage.

Operation: "TRIP TO OZ"

Atlas Nuclear Missile Silo in Kansas

William Leonard Pickard

Glassware Seized at LSD Laboratory

INTRODUCTION

Whatever happened to LSD and the Timothy Leary culture of the 1960's? Ideas, cultures, and the products of those cultures spread like viruses. The product of William Leonard Pickard and Timothy Leary's culture was Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and it was so highly valued that using this product was considered a "sacramental occasion" to reach a higher level of consciousness and spirituality. This is the story of the brilliant chemist who tried to bring back the 1960's era of LSD and free love to the 21 st Century. A modern flashback to the San Francisco hippie scene with an Austin Powers genre of characters and a Dr. Strangelove style Atomic Bomb betrayal!

Hollywood has produced dramatic fictional criminal characters such as Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Professor Moriarty, but in the real world, William Leonard Pickard was the most sophisticated and intelligent high-level drug trafficker in American history. This book is based on a true story of actual events, not fiction. It is the story of the people and events surrounding the largest LSD seizure in the history of drug law enforcement in November 2000. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chemists estimate that the defendants in this case had developed a sophisticated laboratory that was able to produce approximately 10 million dosage units of LSD every 5 weeks. More chemicals for LSD production were seized in this single case than was seized by all law enforcement agencies combined in every country of the world, in the entire world history of drug law enforcement. In view of the fact nationwide U. S. seizures of LSD dropped by over 90% every year, in the ten years following their arrest, this case could be argued to be the most significant drug war victory, certainly in terms of combating LSD production, than any case in the history of law enforcement. With regard to the more commonly encountered drugs of abuse (i.e., cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin) there has never been a single case that resulted in even a 10% drop in nationwide seizures. What were the events that led to the biggest drug bust in law enforcement history, and who were the colorful personalities in this bizarre and unusual saga of events?