JURY SELECTED IN RETRIAL OF LETELIER MURDER CASE
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May 12, 1981
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ARTICLE APPEARED THE WASHINGTON POST
1981
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By Laura A. Kiernan,. 'is" believed A o have been made-. in
wa3hln;wn poet Stan writer :- Chile
A jury -of: -five.- men, -"and seven ; 'The -two =defendants, Guillermo :
women was selected yesterday in U.S.. Novae Sampol and--Alvin- Ross Dial
District;-Court' in_ the retrial of; two .are accused of conspiring.with_six_oth
anti-Castro Cubans charged with the -" era to carry , out .the murder of. Lete=.,-
1976 car-bombing 'assassination of - Ler, who was killed iri' a; midmornirg
former- Chilean ambassador' Orlando explosion at Sheridan -Circle onn Sept. -
LeteLer and `artassociate, Ronm Kar- 21, 1976:' Townley, an ^American-born -
pen Mofntt DINA' agent, -testified--at- the original,
Opening~ents in :,the cast: :friar" that he recruited "the Cubans-to=
help- him carry out thet plot at-1116!
were delaye ~yesterday;.while prose direction of his DINA superiors
cation: and -defense= lawyers argued The Chilean courts have refusedto;
ever. the>use `at-the retrial of tran- extradite the secret police, officiaP and
scripts of`a taped telephone conver two
indicted- in the Utelier~
ration'between the government's key case. Two other indicted. Cubans'arer
witness, 1blichael ':Vernon `: Townley, "fug and a third is awaitin
and a friend izr.Santiago,Chile, -which g a
,etriaL tic
was disclosed during the last week of Defense lawyers Pai l' Goldberger"
the original 1979 trial ' and-Lawrence Dubin contend that the-,
When . tl~e U.S.? Court of Appeals transcripts of' the . conversations ' are
reversed-the conviction:. of A he- two "crud". tor, their efforts to" -show_
Cubans- last -September, it also ruled Townley - is biased against the court.T
that presiding Judge':Barrington--'D. They also argue that the conversation.
Parker erred when 14 refused to allow undercuts his truthfulness as a witness'
clefense lawyers to cross-examine ..::. because his comments show aeon-;;
Townley 2about the-; conversatiori. Ac- tempt for the- judicial system -
cording;-to-defense-transcripts of the Federal ,prosecutors, however, 'have
' telephone-call, Townley made dispar- challenged the authenticity of the. tape,
aging remarks-'about Parker and the because of the 'mystery, surroundings
jury, and said -he-would,have friends its origin, and contend that the-prej
threaten,,.: Parker ~ so -;that he would udicial- impact of . Townley's state
withdrawcfrom.the, ments on the jurywould outweigh-any:
Y - Townley took the `wit- '_value they might have in.. challenging
ness-stand,- outside, the. presence of the his-credibility
jury, and testified that portions 'of the Parker said yesterday that he would;
conversation are omitted in the tran- not allow defense lawyers to question
script& The:-tape.of-the conversation Townley on any statements he made,
was made-available"to defense lawyers about: the court :'or':the jury,, which-
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Chilean secret police, known, as'DINA well as irrelevant to the case
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