TOWNLEY ADMITS LYING TO CHILEAN QUESTIONERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606730006-5
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 17, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Townley Admits
THE WASHINGTON POST
17 May 1981
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following DINA' orders, recruited the Cu- Defense lawyer Lawrence. A Dubin Contreras, have been indicted in connec,
bans to carry out the assassination of I.-.- asked Townley yesterday. if the Chilean tion with the killing, but the Chilean -.
teller, the former Chilean. ambassador, who military investigator once told him that the courts have refused to extradite them for :
w" killed in a car bomb explosion on Em- only way to save Chile from the political prosecution.' Two ad' itional Cubans
bassy Row in September 1976.. A young- ..pressure that followed the Letelier murder' charged in the case are fugitives.
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