Spartaco Lavagnini person
also: General Rathacone
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Air Americaorganization · 2Laoscountry · 1Alfred McCoyperson · 1Plain of Jarsplace · 1Royal Laotian Armyorganization · 1Joe Alsopperson · 1Laos Invasion of 1959event · 1Vietnamcountry · 1Laotian plot of General Rathaconeevent · 1
Claims (3)
Spartaco Lavagnini trafficked
CIA book_quoted
“of August 1959, had not yet shown to Alfred McCoy the ledgers that he kept as manager of the Laotian Opium Monopoly, even after the monopoly was declared illegal in 1961. Nor had McCoy yet exposed the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant near the Meko…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 26:32
Spartaco Lavagnini trafficked
PepsiCo book_quoted
“of August 1959, had not yet shown to Alfred McCoy the ledgers that he kept as manager of the Laotian Opium Monopoly, even after the monopoly was declared illegal in 1961. Nor had McCoy yet exposed the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant near the Meko…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 11 @ 26:32
Spartaco Lavagnini covered_up
Laos Invasion of 1959 host_asserted
“several locations and showed him the staged evidence of the 1959 fake invasion. The general is said to have admitted in a 1970 interview that it was fake and he was the real boss in charge of all the opium in Laos. All right, so we're a lit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:11:04
Mentions (2)
▶ 26:01
covertly using Chiang Kai-shek as the tip of the spear. Going on with the book, what I was still unaware of in 1970 was the extent to which principal players in these intrigues, including the airline itself, meaning the CIA Air America, wer…
▶ 1:10:34
which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Another major figure in 1959 and 64 was the La…