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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
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United States federal law enforcement agency
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Hallucinogenic drug
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William Leonard Pickard
American convicted felon
William Leonard Pickard 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Missile launch facility
Underground structure for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles
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Wamego, Kansas
City in Pottawatomie County, Kansas
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