Behind The White Line - Podcast drops tomorrow
5/20/20261 min
An investigation into Australia’s cocaine binge, Behind the White Line, traces the trail of white powder, from narco to nostrils. The series goes inside a $1 billion shipment, exposing a police turf war between the United States' DEA, the AFP and WA cops over an audacious sting to outwit a Mexican cartel.
With exclusive interviews of high-ranking detectives, undercover operatives, DEA agents and coke users, Behind the White Line, examines the human cost of the world’s glamour drug hosted by investigative journalist Richard Baker.
Available from 21 May on LiSTNR's Secrets We Keep, on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Transcript
15 sentencesRichard Baker· Host0:00
Australia is awash with cocaine and cartels love us. Aussies are the world's biggest coke users per capita, and we pay top dollar.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:08
It feels like way more people are on the bags, and they're not even bothering to hide it.
Richard Baker· Host0:12
Getting a bag is as easy as Uber Eats.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:14
I'll order my weekends.
Richard Baker· Host0:16
It's time to rack up. The lines are coming out. The boys are two to a cubicle, three to a cubicle. But every one of those lines has a little story behind it. I've gone deep inside an audacious $1 billion cocaine sting by America's infamous DEA and state police to outwit Mexico's deadly Gulf Cartel. But this job sparked a fierce turf war between WA cops, the AFP, and the DEA.
Speaker 4· Soundbite0:41
The cartels all work together. The bikies are working together. Our cops aren't.
Richard Baker· Host0:47
[laughs] Join me, Richard Baker, as we go behind the white line on Secrets We Keep or wherever you get your podcasts.