CUBANS CALLED 'SCAPEGOATS' AT TRIAL FOR LETELIER DEATH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606730007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 13, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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to protect, .itself . from any implication,
in the murder. He said- DINA got,
Defense lawyers for two anti-Castro willing support from anti-Castro Cu-
Cubans on trial-for the second time! bans in the United States, Feldman is
for. the 1976. car=bombing:'assassina prosecuting the case along with As-
tion- of former., Chilean ambassador .. sistant U.S.'Attorneys E. Lawrence.
Orlando- Letelier told a federal ;jury. Barcella Jr. and K-Lowell Brown.
yesterday. .that.-their' clients:: were
"seape$easis,:a conspiracy: between ,ot`defendants, Guillermo'
Novw Sampol and:'-Alvin, Roes Diaz,
the piosec ution}g star,-witness and they are both members of the Cuban Na=
Chilean-secret poIx s to, k71:.Leteher; ? tionalist Movement, which. had deal
and:;xiEthe-blzesennthe Cubans. ,nth the .Chilean government?
That theory, , :ppreted in opening Feldman said.-: The relationship was:
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stn ments ,.... cen - best described in a 1976 letter signed
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THE WASHINGTON POST
13 May 1981
on-'tsm- inn J V i U u2ati? a assns he said, `The CNM has intrepidly
ination was mastermw
de6 03' e' defended the best interests of the Pi
ZQnlig Intelligence Agency and -
nochet government in every way pub-
-lic and private worthy of comment
acte
d as a double: agent for worthy of silence," Feldman told.
and rte 0A:an the UWE= secre the juryDuring his opening. -statement m: Defense lawyer Goldberger also told
U.S District defense, lawyer. the jury that they will hear parts of a
:Paul-3 rger~ n men-i transcript of portions of a telephone
tione~, that: = `call made. from the U.S. attorney's
once- sernces l'A office in' Washington to Chile by
znda a ran a agency had,, Townley in which Townley said he-
apprgv or opera o ser-' would get - friends to threaten Judge
t Barrington D. Parker, who is presid-
Insteacl; Goldberger emphasized] ins at the trial.' Goldberger said thee
that--the secret police . had targeted,, comments will show that Townley,:
Letelier because of-his outspoken- crit - ? whom he described as a "mild man-:
irisnc of the military regime of Augus - ` nered Clark Kent," had no respect for:
to Pinochet,:_an&:that-Townley was. the judicial system.
order to csay~out the assassinatwn r:' The telephone , conversation took.
-and:-tld to shield_ Chilean officials' - place' in January 1979, at the end of
from. anyculpability._' ?: ~' .... the.first trial of Guillermo Novo and:
`Townley got instructions in Chile; - Ross, both. of whom are charged with;
to irsarthe Cubans, .:Goldberger. told'.,: , conspiracy and murder of Letelier andl-
the jury "And. that's exactly what he . Ronni Karpen Moffitt, an associate of
rote to do, lay it on the Cubans."- Letelier's.- at the Institute for Policy
Assistant.: U.S. Attorney. iCary L : -, Studies_t in 'Washington. Two other,
Feldman-, in his opening statement to; Cubans and three Chileans, including:,
the ju y, said the government will the DINA head, have been indicted:
nstructions. . "for the killings but have not yet stood''-
prove that Townley, on instructions._'.:
fror4-:DINA ., officials, ~ _, recruited . the . trial
Culrrs:to help him carry out the Le-: A `tape of the conversation, the or `
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teliet.assass'nation.: .7 igin of :which is unknown, was made!..
agreed that DINA wanted available to the defense at that tune.,
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