The Sunshine Makers Page #5

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He thought is there perhaps

a dead body in the house?

Sheriff's office.

He called the police.

OK.

Hold on just a second.

A cop came.

The cop decided that he

would break down the door.

As soon as he went

inside, he immediately

called the narcotics police.

None of us had paid

attention to how

the laws changed in Colorado.

So when the Denver lab was

busted, each of the things

we were doing there had become

a more serious felony,

than in California.

The heat on us

was really increasing a lot.

I said that I wanted to take

a hiatus of about six months,

and go get regular jobs where

federal agents could see us do

our work, until they got

tired it

and we have

an agreed meeting place.

And at some point we'd drop

whatever it is we're doing,

meet in this place and proceed.

Tim said that he

wanted to continue.

So then I said, well

then I guess I'm out.

That's how I was out.

I was going to have

to start from scratch.

Owsley made it pretty clear

he wouldn't be financing me.

When I told him, well I didn't

really have enough money

to do it on my own, he

said, "well, how about if you"

ask Billy Hitchcock?"

And what it came down

to was seeing if Nick wanted

to set up a lab in partnership.

They said, come to California.

We'll work together.

So we pooled our resources.

I got to the house in Windsor,

and we all go forward

on the shoulders of the people

who went before us.

In 1969

we did have intelligence

that Sand and Scully were

working together on producing,

Orange Sunshine, LSD.

I mean, everybody in Haight

was talking about it.

It was the LSD of choice.

We would get reports

from all over the country

about Orange Sunshine seizures.

So we knew it was spreading

around the country.

Sand and Scully were apparently

running this lab in Windsor.

And they did a good job

of keeping it from us.

We conducted surveillances.

We talked to informants.

We did a lot of things.

But we didn't find the lab.

Stay there.

But sometime

after Scully

did get arrested

at the Napa County Airport,

for, at the lab in Denver.

I was busted

in the spring of '69.

I spent a lot of time commuting

to Denver to go to court.

Would you please relate

to this court and jury

when and where you

first observed him.

I first observed him at 1:24...

And after that,

I tended

to have paranoid trips

where I was hallucinating

police in the trees.

It was very unnerving

to think that the police

might be out in the bushes,

about to swoop down.

And I was just terrified.

So I got in touch

with the Brotherhood folks,

and basically said, you

guys have to take over.

I can't do it anymore.

Tim's timid.

He's not real brave sometimes.

Why do you think

he quit when you didn't quit

and Nick didn't quit?

Because he

didn't take enough of it.

I don't know how much acid Tim

took, but it wasn't much.

You need to keep

taking it so that you

really are current

with your spiritual feelings.

Pretend it was a momentary job,

and he did what he did.

And then he was finished.

And to me it was just

another rock on the road.

America's public enemy

number one is drug abuse.

In order to fight

and defeat this enemy,

it is necessary to wage

a new all-out offensive.

Just another a**hole

trying to direct money,

and power where he wanted it.

The depth of our commitment,

our national commitment

is clear.

And the pressure

is on the criminal drug trade.

Richard Lee Rathjen, Special Agent

for the Internal Revenue Service.

I was working very closely

with the Internal Revenue Service.

Dick Rathjen.

A special group

was formed within the IRS.

It consisted of about

100 special agents

under the designation of the

Narcotics Traffickers Program.

Nicholas Sand was one of the

original cases assigned me.

Nick Sand

had a harder edge.

He was a typical high-level

drug dealer,

who was primarily motivated

by profit.

I was never out for money.

The only money I ever

wanted was enough money,

to live comfortably

and to make as many psychedelic

laboratories as I could.

Dick Rathjen

pulled his tax returns.

And from there the investigation

just grew on the tax side.

Agent Rathjen

was a very smart man.

And he figured there were a

few holes in the stories.

Mr. Sand did not report

approximately $300,000

in taxable income.

That's how

they got Al Capone, right?

Right.

He also told me he owned

no assets, held no property,

had nothing in any

nominee names or anything.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, that

was a little bit of a balls up.

In other words, he

was dead broke and lived

off his common law wife.

We opened a criminal

tax investigation

on her at this point.

This is getting

too heavy.

I don't want to do this anymore.

Everything was obviously

going to have

to be done on a whole

different level,

assumed names, new identities.

By that point I was already

starting to think

about training as a teacher.

And I loved the ranch

and I really,

loved the idea of us living

here and raising children here.

So you think he should've quit?

I thought so.

I thought that there were a lot

of things that he could do.

He wasn't going

to shake this life

so that it would

be centered here.

It was going to be centered

around making psychedelics.

He began to take himself

so seriously that you

couldn't poke him in the side

and say, "oh, come

on, get off it."

I think anybody

that has to do this job,

you had to have a big ego.

I did something

I feel was really

good for millions of people,

and I'm OK with that.

I love him.

I've loved him my whole life.

But for a while he became,

the best word I can think of,

is insufferable.

We reached

a point where I told him,

you need to find somebody else.

And he did.

I went off to St.

Louis with a new partner.

I made a beautiful

laboratory, two-story brick

building in downtown St. Louis.

I'd formed this company, Signet

Research and Development.

Everybody was very happy

that industry was moving

into this impoverished

area and I

was getting kudos

from the mayor.

We made a lot

of beautiful psychedelics.

And we were right

out in the open.

One more job, one more paycheck.

We didn't really

accept checks though.

We went through all the

bank accounts for Nicholas Sand

and a number of other accounts

we located, William Hitchcock,

Robert Timothy Scully.

I was very scared.

If Nick kept

on cooking, he would

eventually bring down all of

us in a huge conspiracy case.

Billy and I tried to talk him

into taking some time out,

just the way Don Douglas

had tried to talk

me into taking time out.

Nick was totally

irresponsible in the way he

was going about his business.

And he was jeopardizing

everyone else who

was involved in the Windsor lab.

Nick responded

by saying that it was that none

of our business what he did.

And after all, hadn't we agreed

to try to turn on the world.

That's pretty common

with a high level traffickers.

They must have their own

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