Operation Show Me How
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Operation Show Me How was a major Interpol drug bust. It was named after the children's book Show Me How I Can Paint. After the discovery of the same book in a briefcase of a known drug courier, packages to be delivered to Luxembourg hotels were detained. They were found containing heroin hidden within the inside covers. Before this, drug smuggling through the postal system was uncommon and relatively unknown.
The root of the heroin was in Nigeria, where growers would hide the drug within the covers of the Show Me How I Can Paint books. They would be shipped to Thailand. The nation functioned as a distribution center, from which books containing the heroin would be sent to Luxembourg via the business express mail system. The packages would be sent to various hotels in the region, where more drug couriers would receive the packages. The couriers would be guests at the hotel staying at rooms under aliases. The couriers would then re-send the packages individually, again in the business express mail to the United States.
