Word: townley
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Michael Vernon Townley, an American working for the Chilean National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), told the FBI last week he would supply information on DINA operations in exchange for a reduced sentence for his role in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier, and his associate at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Ronni K. Moffitt...
...Townley, who had lived in Chile since 1958, is believed by the FBI to be the link between a group of anti-Castro Cubans suspected of placing the bomb under Letelier's car in September 1976, and DINA, formerly headed by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda...
...Chilean government deported Townley last month in response to pressure by the U.S. government which culminated in a threat to withdraw the American ambassador to Chile, George Landau...
...still looking for a third suspect in the case--Rogelio Paz, from Union City, N.J. Sources in the FBI told The New York Times last week that Townley contacted the Cuban suspects at least two times during the summer of 1976, three months before the assasination...
...have any doubt that Townley is a small piece of the puzzle," said Letelier's widow Isabel. He is a piece to which many other pieces may yet be fitted...