Operation Julie |The Rise and Fall of a Drug Empire : Episode 501
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about. |
| 0:08.2 | Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello and welcome to episode number 501 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:19.7 | And a huge thank you for commenting on the podcast apps |
| 0:22.6 | or contacting me about the last episode with Michael Ross. It sounds like you found him as |
| 0:28.6 | inspirational as I did. And to win a sign copy of his book, just five more minutes. Please |
| 0:34.4 | just join my community at patreon.com slash UK true crime. Today's story is a bit |
| 0:41.7 | different as we go from LSD to the sport of high altitude mountaineering. Rather apt at this time |
| 0:48.1 | when the expeditions are arriving in Nepal ready for their summit attempts at Everest and |
| 0:53.7 | the other big mountains in |
| 0:55.1 | the next month or so. But before we begin, let's set some context with our guest a month and year |
| 1:01.1 | game. You ready? We're going a bit further back than usual today, and at number two in the UK |
| 1:07.1 | charts, it was Abba with knowing me, knowing you. In the US, the Eagles are in the UK charts, it was Abba with knowing me knowing you. |
| 1:11.1 | Aha. |
| 1:16.2 | In the US, the Eagles are in the top spot with new kid in town, |
| 1:20.8 | and in Australia, the top selling single of the year was a classic. |
| 1:24.9 | It was Julie Covington, and don't cry for me, Argentina. |
| 1:31.5 | In the news this month, 583 people died in aviation's worst-ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collided at Tenneufe Airport in Spain. |
| 1:36.6 | Elvis Presley began his last ever concert tour. |
| 1:39.8 | The government won a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons |
| 1:43.1 | after Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan struck a deal of no confidence in the House of Commons after Labour Prime Minister |
| 1:45.2 | James Callahan struck a deal of the leader of the Liberal Party, David Steele. |
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