Gordon Todd Skinner

Gordon Todd Skinner (born July 13, 1964) is an American government operative, former drug manufacturer, and convicted kidnapper who was involved in the world's largest LSD manufacturing organization in the late 1990s and 2000. He worked with chemist William Leonard Pickard and their mover, Clyde Apperson, to make and distribute LSD in and from Aspen, Colorado; Sante Fe, New Mexico; and two former missile silos in Salina and Wamego, Kansas.

Skinner grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and started manufacturing various drugs in high school. In the 1980s, Skinner became an informant for multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies. Legal files demonstrate that as an operative, Skinner worked with, or was an operative of: U.S. Treasury for US Customs, Secret Service, IRS, Treasury Intelligence, and Treasury Criminal Investigations; under the State Department, he worked with, or was an operative of the Diplomatic Security Service. Through the Department of Justice, he worked with FBI, DEA, and Inspector General of the DOJ. He also worked with or was an operative of the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, Scotland Yard, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (formerly the Drug Enforcement Task Force). He was also involved in HIDTA(Group 2), Operation Greenback, Operation White Rabbit, and Operation Flashback et alia.