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Michael Vernon Townley, an American working for the Chilean National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), told the FBI last week he would supply information on DINA operations in exchange for a reduced sentence for his role in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier, and his associate at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Ronni K. Moffitt...
...Chilean government deported Townley last month in response to pressure by the U.S. government which culminated in a threat to withdraw the American ambassador to Chile, George Landau...
Financial dependence on foreign capital markets immediately compromises national sovereignty, as the Chilean example clearly demonstrates. In order to continue borrowing foreign capital at reasonable rates, the Quebec government must assure its investors of domestic policies conducive to the maintenance of a profitable business climate in the province or country. Such an assurance, however, decreases the range of policies which any government, provincial or federal, can implement to protect its workers and its culture...
Pinochet originally ridiculed any suggestion of Chilean military involvement in the killing. But the U.S. continued to demand that the two suspects be interrogated-and threatened cuts in U.S. aid. The general promised full cooperation and later forced the head of the military police, General Manuel Sepulveda, to resign...
...soon as Townley's identity became known, U.S. District Attorney Eugene Propper flew to Santiago to negotiate his expulsion from Chile. "I am a supporter of the junta above everything else, and I have full confidence in Chilean justice," Townley protested. "What the U.S. is trying to do through me is carry out a political attack on the government of Chile." But while Townley's lawyers were still challenging the U.S. request, Chilean police hustled the American onto a northward-bound plane and told the FBI to take him away. The FBI agents had to depart in such...