Kinzer reports a funny story. The officer dispatched to Basel "returned a report that Sandoz had ten kilograms of LSD on hand, which he correctly called a 'fantastically large amount'. [Allen] Dulles approved the expenditure of $240,000 to buy it all -- the world's entire supply. The two officers sent to pick it up, however, quickly discovered that their colleague had confused kilograms with grams. Sandoz had manufactured a total of less than forty grams, of which ten were in stock."