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    #13978163 - 02/17/11 10:02 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

  • 1968:  The film LSD: Trip to Where? is released




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LSD: Trip to Where?
(1968)
23min | Short, Drama | 17 February 1968 (USA)

Stars: Tim Knight, Timothy Leary, Richard Lynch

Storyline

Three sailors are talked into trying LSD and marijuana--which, this film implies, are basically the same thing--and the effects of the drugs endanger the lives of their fellow sailors aboard ship.


(http://www.imdb.com)




Made in 1968 as American servicemen fought in Vietnam, LSD: TRIP TO WHERE? highlights the dangers of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Widely shown to U.S. military personnel (including those stationed in Vietnam), the film was supplemented with a brochure for "Operation Janus", a brigade-level amnesty and treatment program aimed at helping soldiers, airmen and sailors with marijuana, heroin and other substance abuse problems. In this film Bill, a sailor on leave, takes acid and is so scared by his own reflection that he attempts to leap out of a window. He later endangers all his shipmates by suffering a flashback on duty.


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  • 1969:  The Temptations release the album Cloud Nine




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Cloud Nine is a 1969 album by American musical group The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label.

The album is a watershed for several reasons. It is the first regular Temptations studio LP to feature Dennis Edwards as the replacement for David Ruffin, who was fired in June 1968. In addition, it marks the beginning of the Temptations' four-year delve into psychedelia recording, at the behest of producer Norman Whitfield, in a fusion genre referred to as "psychedelic soul." The album went to number four on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart and the group received their first Grammy Award in 1969.

Background

Norman Whitfield took the Temptations into psychedelic territory after a suggestion from the group's defacto leader, Otis Williams. Williams had been discussing Sly & the Family Stone's music, and the changes it brought to the soul music industry, with his friend, producer Kenneth Gamble. Gamble agreed with Williams that Sly Stone's funkier production style and multi-lead vocals was here to stay and that it was time to learn to adapt to it.

While Williams, Whitfield, and Williams' then-wife Ann Cain were standing outside of the Casino Royale nightclub in Motown's home city of Detroit during the summer of 1968, Williams suggested that Whitfield might try to produce something like Sly & the Family Stone's "Dance to the Music" for their next single. The Temptations had been successful with romantic ballads such as "My Girl" and midtempo numbers such as "(I Know) I'm Losing You", but Williams, taking Gamble's advice, felt that it was time to update the group's sound. "Man, I don't want to be bothered with that shit," remarked Whitfield, who regarded the Family Stone sound as a "passing fancy".

Overview

Regardless of his original opinion of Sly Stone's work, by the fall of 1968, Whitfield had the Temptations recording "Cloud Nine", which featured all five members (Otis Williams, the newly drafted Dennis Edwards, and founding members Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, and Melvin Franklin) trading lead vocals over a Family Stone-like instrumental track. Although Otis Williams denies the connection, "Cloud Nine's" lyrics have frequently been cited as empathizing with drug use. The song seems to suggest that the best way for someone to deal with the problems that come with being poor and black in America was to "ride high on 'cloud nine'". "Cloud Nine" was a number six hit on the US pop singles chart, and a number two hit on the US R&B singles chart, and won Motown Records its first Grammy Award, for Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental.

Side one

  1. "Cloud Nine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 3:27
  2. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Whitfield, Strong) – 3:00
  3. "Runaway Child, Running Wild" (Whitfield, Strong) – 9:38

Side two

  1. "Love is a Hurtin' Thing" (Ben Raleigh, Dave Linden) – 2:28
  2. "Hey Girl" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:38
  3. "Why Did She Have to Leave Me (Why Did She Have to Go)" (Whitfield, Strong) – 2:56
  4. "I Need Your Lovin'" (Whitfield, Strong) – 2:35
  5. "Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me" (Whitfield, Strong) – 2:31
  6. "I Gotta Find a Way (To Get You Back)" (Whitfield, Strong, Edward Holland, Jr., Cornelius Grant, Eddie Kendricks) – 3:00
  7. "Gonna Keep On Tryin' till I Win Your Love" – 2:32 (Whitfield, Strong)


Released February 17, 1969
Recorded Late summer 1968 - January 1969
Genre Soul/psychedelic soul
Length 31:35
Label Gordy
GS 939
Producer Norman Whitfield


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  • 1976:  Operation Julie begins




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Operation Julie was a UK police investigation into the production of LSD by two drug rings during the mid-1970s. The operation, involving 11 police forces over a two-and-a-half year period, resulted in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world. It culminated in 1976 in 6 million 'tabs' of LSD (worth a then £100 million) being seized, 120 people arrested in the UK and France and over £800,000 discovered in Swiss bank accounts.

Background

The principal suspects were Dr. Richard Hilary Kemp, a chemist and graduate of the University of St Andrews. and his partner Christine Bott. They lived at Penlleinau, two miles from Tregaron and both were influenced by the teachings of Timothy Leary and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Distribution of the LSD was the responsibility Alston Frederick Hughes (known as Smiles) and Paul Healy (know as Buzz) who lived in Llanddewi Brefi. Dyfed-Powys Police became suspicious about the low price of LSD in their region as well as the amount of LSD being seized compared to the rest of the UK and got in touch with Detective Inspector Dick Lee of the Thames Valley Drug Squad.

Dick Lee asked Dyfed-Powys Police to raid Alston Hughes house in Llanddewi Brefi. However, Lee was late for the raid and phoned the local police to pass on a message to the local police. His call was taken by the wife of the local policeman who after being told of the urgency of the call, promptly went to Alston Hughes house to ask if her husband was there. This was before the raid and Hughes took advantage of this to remove any drugs in his home.

In April 1975 Kemp’s red Range Rover was involved in a fatal accident with a car near Machynlleth, a passenger in the other car being killed. Kemp was known to DI Lee as a possible suspect in the drug’s trade and when police searched his car they found six pieces of paper which after being reconstructed spelt hydrazine hydrate - a key ingredient in the manufacture of LSD. This crucial lead gave police their first vital clue into the drug ring operating in west Wales.

Operation Julie

The discovery in Kemp’s car prompted the establishment of Britain's first combined drug busting operation lead by Dick Lee. On February 17, 1976 a meeting at Brecon involved a number of chief constables and senior drug squad officers formed a multiforce operation. This was the beginning of Operation Julie.

In April 1976, a selection of 28 undercover drug squad officers from 10 police forces were chosen and sent to Devizes in Wiltshire where they were trained to go undercover as hippies in Wales. In May 1976, the undercover police moved into a farmhouse in Bronwydd overlooking Kemp's cottage.  Initially locals took them for birdwatchers but as the undercover operation progressed from weeks into months, female officers were added. The first name of one of these surveillance officers, Police Sergeant Julie Taylor, was used as the operation’s code name.

Surveillance of Kemp noted his regular 50-mile commutes between his home in Tregaron and Plas Llysyn, an old mansion owned by an American friend Paul Joseph Arnaboldi, in Carno near Llanidloes. The mansion was watched by police from an old caravan and people arriving were monitored. Lee instructed police to break-in to the mansion. In the cellar police took water samples which chemically matched LSD samples the police had.

Kemp and Bott’s home was now put under 24 hour surveillance and listening devices installed. As a direct result of this a drug/cash handover was overheard that was to take place at the Ram Inn in Cwmann between Alston Hughes and a Russell Spenceley. The meeting saw a package of 50 thousand microdots exchanged.

London Connection

In October, 1976 a police team based at RAF Hendon monitored a house (first from a van, then from a house overlooking the property) in Seymour Road, Hampton Wick. This was an LSD lab run by Henry Barclay Todd and Andrew Munro, an inorganic chemist. Glass utensils used in this lab had been secretly marked by police at the factory that produced them in Yorkshire.

Raids, arrests and trial

On March 26, 1977, after 13 months of surveillance, Operation Julie officers swooped on 87 homes in England and Wales. The gang leaders were caught and a total of 120 suspects were arrested. At Kemp's home a package containing £11,000 was found as well LSD crystals and tableting equipment. At Carno, lab equipment was dug out of a well. A further raid in the Dordogne region in France located documents that detailed and proved the LSD business had been immense. Various details of French and Swiss accounts were found as well as share certificates.

On December 1, 1977, officers researched Kemp's cottage and dug up a large plastic box that contained 1.3kg of LSD crystal - enough to create 13 million doses.

In 1978, 17 defendants appeared at Bristol Crown Court. It took a month for the prosecution to deliver the incriminating evidence. Kemp pleaded guilty and received 13 years in jail, as did Todd. Bott got 9 year and Hughes 8 years. Paul Healy was found not to have been involved in the LSD distribution but was sentenced to 12 months for possession of cannabis. In total the 17 defendants received a combined 170 years in jail.

After seizure it was estimated the cost of LSD tabs rose from a £1 to £5, and that Operation Julie had removed 90% of LSD from British market. It is thought that LSD produced by the two labs had been exported to over 100 countries. In total 13 million tabs worth a then 100 million pounds were discovered and destroyed.

Cultural references

A three-part television drama was made in 1985 closely following the events of the case. It was directed by Bob Mahoney.

The Song "Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad" by The Clash, from their second Album Give 'em Enough Rope, takes its name from Operation Julie.

In December 2010, Welsh actor Matthew Rhys bought the film rights to the book.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #13980615 - 02/17/11 06:57 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Operation Julie documentary


























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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #13981288 - 02/17/11 08:58 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: 28064212] * 1
    #15822269 - 02/17/12 05:44 AM (11 years, 11 months ago)

Here are some interviews from Leaf Fielding, who was the pill presser in the LSD operation that was eventually busted by Operation Julie.
























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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #15822494 - 02/17/12 08:14 AM (11 years, 11 months ago)

Good thing all these countries always spend so much money trying to fight a drug that in almost all practicality can't even kill you... :facepalm3:


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: 420Experience]
    #17817484 - 02/17/13 07:13 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Annual bump.
















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #19578311 - 02/17/14 05:24 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

45th anniversary of the Cloud Nine album today. 

















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    #21286503 - 02/17/15 05:35 AM (8 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Learyfan]
    #22914542 - 02/17/16 05:40 AM (7 years, 11 months ago)

Operation Julie started 40 years ago today.

















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    #24097046 - 02/17/17 05:27 AM (6 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Learyfan]
    #25000915 - 02/17/18 10:00 AM (5 years, 11 months ago)

50th anniversary of the Navy scare film LSD: Trip To Where?













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    #25818535 - 02/17/19 09:51 AM (4 years, 11 months ago)

50th anniversary of the Cloud Nine LP today.  My favorite part of the Wikipedia overview of this album is where it says:

"The song seems to suggest that the best way for someone to deal with the problems that come with being poor and black in America was to "ride high on 'cloud nine'"












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    #26489486 - 02/17/20 05:41 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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    #27210699 - 02/17/21 07:58 AM (2 years, 11 months ago)

45th anniversary of the start of Operation Julie today. :mad2:









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    #27211611 - 02/17/21 05:12 PM (2 years, 11 months ago)

bastards... although, Richard Kemp fucked up hard.  Honestly, he really created the whole problem himself, crashing his Land Rover with a fucking list of LSD ingredients as well as chemistry notes on the process.  Like.. how could you let the cops find that shit and forget it was in your car?

That started the whole investigation.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/17) [Re: Typerwritermonky]
    #27662129 - 02/17/22 04:07 AM (1 year, 11 months ago)

Yeah, he obviously got way too comfortable. It was reckless.








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    #28190978 - 02/17/23 04:08 AM (11 months, 6 days ago)

55th anniversary of LSD: Trip to Where? today.









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