Operation Julie: The World’s Greatest LSD Bust

In March 1977, the largest police drugs bust in history cracked a drugs ring based near Tregaron in rural mid-Wales. Six million tabs of LSD were recovered by the police and 120 people were arrested throughout the UK and France. Stashes of LSD worth £100 million were also unearthed and £800,000 was discovered hidden in Swiss bank accounts. Eventually, 17 defendants were jailed for a total of 130 years in the wake of the investigation code-named Operation Julie. Lyn Ebenezer was a journalist in the Tregaron area at the time of the case. He includes new information never released before, based on interviews with many of the men involved.