Explosion On the morning of 21 September …yo. Orlando: Letelier, who had a job with the Ici will musutute Policy Studies (IPS), was driv1ng through cudass y district of Washington with a young couple who worked for the IPS, Michael and Ronni Moffitt. Ronni was sitting in the front next to Letelier Michael was sitting in the back.
Unknown to Letelier, 'they wele ven oloweo. n rne pursuing car someone pressec Michael Moffit ene a mssm solne wnich. as he said later, sounded like MOA AP HNATA 10 D water' Then he. saw a blinding flash above Ronni's head followed by a crashing sound.
Letelier's car was blown Socialist Challenge paramilitary tens had 'create a martyr' commando line fed to the southern numerous which gave credence was in studying FBI and the jammed it. electronics team which death government's agency reached its • because the bomb sion, the and asphyxiation. Coup was wrong on remotely- The widespread ingenious handi- returned to Libertad ICCHN much bigger He Townley in period as Manuel nervter colonel at to Americans abroad tellallla.
Chile's leftist tlCLU He made. contact Patria y Libertad, a fascist which had just been allocated vl dalisaliull of Enriquez abducted Townley's in the 'Condor One' of Concep an saue. mn• one on Presidents Mer the raided the allil? question supervitransmitter's bound incident received publicity. the new year.
Townley fled the country and the US. But General Pinochet's coup September 1973 brought him back to Chile. Many in Patria Was became DINA •Carlo agents, and the agency had Didus TIO] the new order established by the generals 'Contreras was the time UVC. coup. To him was given the task of constructing an efficem secrer ponce lorce wnieh would wage national and inwall against opponents ly dealt Most mornings Contreras breakfasted at around Gam was with Pinochet, and discússed the canture and execution ot leftists who had taken refuge abroad. A classic example of the Condor operation was the way that Eduardo Enriquez brother of MIR leader Miguel and the MIR's representative in Europe, was in Uruguay and secreuv tommeo o cena.
Contreras dubbed himself — the leader of communist élite.
One autnors Sall andal, was investigation of the murder oj Letelier which is recounted in the book. It revealed without that the ; ablę to get into the United States was becaus. or ine ciose co-operanon ner ween the CIA and the DINA. Letelier was also the victim of foreign policy of the United States *Assassination Embassy Row will be published by Writers and Readers Publishing Co-operative ir Townley's first and besl known operation for DINA tne muraer or cenera Prats in Buenos Aires tion. in 1974. Prats stayed loyal to Allende at the time of the Chilean coup and fled aeross the border to Argentina. Just thing lale showed up in Buenos Aires.
local team Alliance (AAA) he organised the despatch of Prats in the same way that he subsequentLetelier Prats was blown to bits and his wite his, burned Townley's next miseleçt of the United States. The CIA has always refused to discuss the details of the case The murder of Letelier had widespread COC CUS sions. : Chile came under in creasing presse. When the lo noeranse : idențity of the organiser of the murde was revealed Pinochet expelled Townley and extradited him to the US.
Townley promptly • fingered Contreras and Pinochet the _real organisers of Letelier's death. Contreras Contreras is cited in the official indictment US has asked for his extradi-.
Pinochet eventually sacked him and dissolved DINA, replacing it with a reorganised version of the same …• ensue convcuon une US prosecutors entered into a Townley Dica Dartal He turned States' evidence il WIlLE return for a 10-year sentence His Cuban exilé accomplices got. 99 years. Reports •nue say inal eontreras Is on way back Michael Townley be eligible for parole in 1981.
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