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Oil Smuggling Plot Exposed by Bust in Madrid
A 1878 Foreign Service report details a scheme by Frenchman Foucarde to smuggle oil into Madrid using women with tin oil-filled chests. The ruse collapsed when a guard detected the ruse after an amorous gesture, ending Foucarde’s profitable venture.
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Foreign Service Journal
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Foreign Service
J. R. Lowell
U. S
Spain
William M. Evarts
Lowell
Foucarde
Madrid
M. Foucarde