Michael Townley, a U.S. expatriate, first worked for the CIA before working for the DINA, Chilean secret police under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, where he participated in operation Condor. He planned General Carlos Prats's murder in Buenos Aires in 1974, beneath order of head of DINA Manuel Contreras, as well as Orlando Letelier's car bombing in Washington, D.C. in 1976. The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... For the Biblical Dina, see Dinah. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (born November 25, 1915) was ruler of Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... General Prats, as vice-president General Carlos Prats González (1915 - Chilean political figure, and General Augusto Pinochets predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. ... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... General Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda (born May 4, 1929) was the head of Augusto Pinochets National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and one of the most powerful men in Chile during Pinochets rule. ... Orlando Letelier (1932 April 13 - 1976 September 21) was a member of the Salvador Allende’s government who was assassinated in Washington, D.C., by Chilean DINA agents in 1976. ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Operation Condor in Italy

According to declassified CIA documents, he met in 1975 with Gladio member Stefano Delle Chiaie, an Italian far-right terrorist, and was also in contact with OAS member Albert Spaggiari[1]. He has been condemned in absentia in Italy to 15 years of jail, due to his role as an intermediary between the Chilean DINA and far-right Italians, involved during the 1970s-80s in a strategy of tension linked to P2 masonry lodge and Gladio "stay-behind" anticommunist network [2]. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Operation Gladio Operation Gladio was a clandestine stay-behind operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Italy, as well as in other European countries. ... Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 1934) was a figure on the far right of Italian politics who went on to become a wanted man worldwide. ... The Organisation de larmée secrète (OAS; Secret Army Organization) was a short-lived French right-wing terrorist group formed in January 1961 to resist the granting of independence to the French colony of Algeria (Algérie française). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... For the Biblical Dina, see Dinah. ... The Strategy of Tension (Italian; strategia della tensione) is a way to control and manipulate public opinion using propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs and terror. ... P2 is the common name for the Italian Freemasonic lodge Propaganda Due (Italian: Propaganda Two). ... Operation Gladio Operation Gladio was a clandestine stay-behind operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Italy, as well as in other European countries. ...

Convicted for Orlando Letelier's murder

He has been convicted in the United States for Orlando Letelier's murder in Washington, D.C. in 1976, and implicated Augusto Pinochet of being responsible of it. He confessed that he had hired five anti-castro Cubans exile to booby-trap Letelier's car. According to Jean-Guy Allard, after consultations with the anti-castro cuban organization CORU leadership, including Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, those elected to carry out the murder were Cuban-Americans José Dionisio "Bloodbath" Suárez, Virgilio Paz Romero, Alvin Ross Díaz and brothers Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll [3][4]. According to the Miami Herald, Luis Posada Carriles was at this meeting that decided on Letelier's death and also about the Cubana bombing. and of having hired the five Cuban hitman. Orlando Letelier (1932 April 13 - 1976 September 21) was a member of the Salvador Allende’s government who was assassinated in Washington, D.C., by Chilean DINA agents in 1976. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (born November 25, 1915) was ruler of Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... Luis Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is an anti-Castro Cuban émigré and former CIA-backed terrorist who is alleged to have been involved in numerous violent terrorist plots, including hotel bombings and the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Flight 455 in which seventy-three people were killed. ... Orlando Bosch is a Cuban exile and former CIA-backed terrorist, head of CORU organization, which the FBI has described as an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization. He has been accused of having taken part in Operation Condor and of a variety of terrorist attacks. ... Virgilio Paz Romero is an anti-castro Cuban exile, involved in various terrorist acts. ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... Luis Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is an anti-Castro Cuban émigré and former CIA-backed terrorist who is alleged to have been involved in numerous violent terrorist plots, including hotel bombings and the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Flight 455 in which seventy-three people were killed. ...

In 1978, Chile accepted to hand him over to the USA, in order to reduce the tension about Orlando Letelier's murder. Michael Townley was then freed under witness protection programs. USA is still waiting for Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza Bravo to be extradited. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... General Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda (born May 4, 1929) was the head of Augusto Pinochets National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) and one of the most powerful men in Chile during Pinochets rule. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

Swedish prime minister Olof Palme's assassination, 1986

According to former CIA agent Ibrahim Razin, interviewed with Richard Brenneke by RAI journalist Ennio Remondino, Michael Townley was in Stockholm a week before the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, in 1986, which may have been linked to the Iran-Contra affair. After this interview, Italian magazine Panorama revealed that president Francesco Cossiga had sent a letter to prime minister Giulio Andreotti saying that "If the government were to think that the information had any basis, I think that it should inform the judiciary authority and the Parliamentary Commission on Massacres and, at the level of the bilateral relations, the relevant authorities in the U.S.A. and in Sweden." [5] The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) is the Italian public service broadcaster. ... The Old town in Stockholm from the air ▶(?) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... Olof Palme ▶(?) (January 30, 1927 – February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A TIME Magazine cover of Oliver North testifying in front of the U.S. Congress. ... The term panorama originally referred to panoramic painting, but today means any high aspect ratio or wide screen image or film format, especially suitable for landscapes, where a lot of scenery can be taken in at a glance. ... Francesco Cossiga Francesco Cossiga (born July 26, 1928) is an Italian politician and former President of Italy. ... Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti (born in Rome, 14 January 1919) is an Italian political figure, among the most powerful in post-war Italy. ...

Actual investigations

In 2003, Argentine ederal judge Maria Servini de Cubria asked Chile for the extradition of Mariana Callejas, who was Michael Townley's wife, accused of Carlos Prats's murder. But chilean judge Nibaldo Segura from appeal court has refused in july 2005, arguing that they were already been pursued in Chile. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... General Prats, as vice-president General Carlos Prats González (1915 - Chilean political figure, and General Augusto Pinochets predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. ... Ongoing events • 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes • 2005 Maharashtra floods • 2005 Gujarat Flood • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ...

Questioned in march 2005 by judge Alejandro Madrid about ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva's death, Michael Townley acknowledged links between Colonia Dignidad, led by nazi Paul Schäfer, and DINA on one side, and the Laboratorio de Guerra Bacteriologica del Ejercito (Bacteriological War Army Laboratory) on the other side. It is suspected that the toxin that killed Frei Montalva in Santa Maria clinic in 1982 was created there. This new laboratory in Colonia Dignidad would have been, according to him, the continuation of the laboratory that the DINA had on Via Naranja de lo Curro, where he worked with chemist Eugenio Berríos. Townley would also have testified on biological experiments made upon the prisoners in Colonia Dignidad with the help of the two above-mentionned laboratories [6]. ← - 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in March • 31 – Terri Schiavo • 30 – Mitch Hedberg • 29 – Johnnie Cochran • 27 – Wilfred Bigelow • 26 – Paul Hester • 26 – James Callaghan • 21 – Jeff Weise • 21 – Bobby Short • 19 – John De Lorean • 18 – Gary Bertini • 17 – George F... Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911–1982) was the president of Chile from 1964 to 1970. ... Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony, now known as Villa Baviera, Bavaria Village), is a settlement located in an isolated area in the Maule Region of southern Chile, near the village of Parral. ... Paul Schäfer Paul Schäfer Schneider (born December 4, 1921) is the founder and former leader of a sect and agricultural commune of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony)—later renamed Villa Baviera—located in central Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago. ... For the Biblical Dina, see Dinah. ... Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911–1982) was the president of Chile from 1964 to 1970. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony, now known as Villa Baviera, Bavaria Village), is a settlement located in an isolated area in the Maule Region of southern Chile, near the village of Parral. ... For the Biblical Dina, see Dinah. ... Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony, now known as Villa Baviera, Bavaria Village), is a settlement located in an isolated area in the Maule Region of southern Chile, near the village of Parral. ...

External links

• March 2005, radio cooperativa chile - translated by google
• National Security Archives - CIA declassified documents
• President Cossiga's letter to Giulio Andreotti