Old 1980 Something Joint CIA and DEA Operation Notion by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

Way back in the 1980s I had an idea for a joint CIA and DEA operation to track and trace cocaine distribution networks. Historically, the key to the operation was the synthesis of the physiologically active stereoisomer of cocaine:

https://www.erowid.org/…/chemi…/cocaine.total.synthesis.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/0379073887901095

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/cocaine

The idea was to replace some of the carbon atoms in the synthesis of cocaine with carbon-14, a radioactive isomer of carbon-12. Carbon-14 has a well-known decay rate and thus it might theoretically and experimentally be useful to date and trace cocaine samples in the “wild”. This may or may not be a harebrained method.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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