Formed in Oakland in 1964, popular R&B band The Whispers consisted of five members, two of whom were twins. By the 1970s, they had amassed a fan base so large it alarmed the CIA, who became suspicious that the group may have been a front for terrorist activity.

In 1973, The Whispers were arrested after entire cocaine factories were found in the mustaches of three of the five men. They were later acquitted after a whistleblower revealed that the CIA planted them there.

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