Cocaine smuggling scheme unravels
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How a plan to land £100m of cocaine on a Highland beach went wrong
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Julian Chisholm planned to land 100 m of cocaine on a Highland beach in 1990 .
He recruited a gang of fellow Scots to smuggle the drugs across the Atlantic .
He successfully pitched his idea to South America's Cali Cartel , one of the world's most dangerous crime organisations.
But on a stormy winter's night in 1990 , his criminal enterprise began to unravel.
Cocaine and the Klondykers is a three -part documentary on BBC Alba .
Police were on the tail of Chisholm 's gang in the 1980s .
They were to tell officers they were transferring radioactive material from the Dounreay nuclear power plant.
They had fake paperwork to support their lie and hoped officers would keep their distance.
But they were unaware authorities already had an inkling of what they were up to.
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