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Gordon Todd Skinner
Gordon Todd Skinner (born July 13, 1964) is an American government operative, former drug manufacturer, and convicted kidnapper who was involved in the world's largest LSD manufacturing organization in the late 1990s and 2000. He worked with chemist William Leonard Pickard and their mover, Clyde Apperson, to make and distribute LSD in and from Aspen, Colorado, Aspen, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sante Fe, New Mexico; and two former Missile launch facility, missile silos in Salina, Kansas, Salina and Wamego, Kansas, Wamego, Kansas. Skinner grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and started manufacturing various drugs in high school. In the 1980s, Skinner became an informant for multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies. Legal files demonstrate that as an operative, Skinner worked with, or was an operative of: United States Department of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury for United States Customs Service, US Customs, United States Secret Service, Secret Service, Internal Revenue Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Leonard Pickard
William Leonard Pickard (born October 21, 1945) is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) manufacturing case in history. In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over while driving a Ryder rental truck and a follow car. The laboratory had been stored near a renovated Atlas-E missile silo near Wamego, Kansas. Gordon Todd Skinner, one of the men intimately involved in the case but not charged due to his cooperation, owned the property where the laboratory equipment was stored. On July 27, 2020, Pickard was granted compassionate release from federal prison 20 years into his sentence. Background Prior to his arrest, Pickard was deputy director of the Drug Policy Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He came from a well-to-do family; his father was a lawyer and his stepmother was a fungal disease expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In high scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
