Sonia Atala person
also: Atala
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from a flight from Colombia. Unfortunately, he didn't hit any vital organs, so Mejia survived. But the attack allowed DEA, who to that point had lost track of him, to arrest him on charges related to Operation Hunt. The key cooperating sour…
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She was the true cocaine queen of the 1980s. She worked with Levin posing as his lover as part of Operation Hun, and for whom the operation was actually named Attila the Hun. That's DEA humor. Attila also happened to be a key CIA asset. Lev…
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Money in bank vaults. Levin writes this in his book, The Big White Lie. The cocaine coup had turned Sonia Atala into a chief international sales representative for the country of Bolivia, then producing a large portion of the world's cocain…
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not the person we were sold, someone else. In the drug business, treachery is right up there with greed and power. And Bolivia's queen of cocaine, Atala, fell victim to those rules. She had grown too powerful in the eyes of the narcos runni…
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Then in his mid-20s, she had no place to run. Mejia was out to kill her, and Atala's Bolivian allies had turned against her. So she ran to her only friends, the DEA, with the CIA still always in the background. That resulted in Operation Hu…