‘Chilean agency ordered killing*
NZPA-Reuter Washington A key United States Government witness has told a Federal Court that the Chilean intelligence service, D.1.N.A., ordered him to (murder an exiled Chilean diplomat, Orlando Leteleir. An American expatriate, Michael Townley, who has lived in Chile for the past 20 years, said he joined D.I.N.A. after the 1973 military coup d’etat which overthrew the Socialist President, Salvador Allende, who was killed. He agreed to testify as a prosecution witness in exchange for a lighter sentence and the promise of an early parole and has confessed to placing the bomb that blew up Mr Letelier’s car on a Washington street.
| Killed with the former [Chilean Foreign Minister in i the car was Mrs Ronm Mof- [ fitt, his American assistant iat the Institute for Policy [Studies, a liberal research (organisation. [ Three Cuban exiles — Guillermo Novo, his brother Ignacio, and Alvin Ross — are accused of the murder. The Chilean military Gov ernment has denied any prior knowledge or involvement in the murdei Plot- [ The United States Govern[ment is seeking the extraidition of the man who was head of D.I.N.A. at the time of the killing, General Contreras Sepulveda, a dost associate of President Pino- [ chet. General Sepulveda is under house arrest pending a court hearing in Chile.
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Press, 20 January 1979, Page 8
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