Cocain is na Klondykers

BBC Alba

9:00 PM to 9:50 PM

Tuesday 25 February

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Anna MacLeod heads on the trail of Operation Klondyke, the most expensive police and customs operation of the time. Customs have a tough job conducting surveillance in the small town of Ullapool as the town had enjoyed a boom when the factory ships, known as the Klondykes, were based in Loch Broom. However, their departure left an employment vacuum which drug smuggler Julian Chisholm was only too happy to fill. Despite British Customs officers being on to Chisholm, his counter-surveillance techniques made it difficult for him to be tracked