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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...
Townley, who had lived in Chile since 1958, is believed by the FBI to be the link between a group of anti-Castro Cubans suspected of placing the bomb under Letelier's car in September 1976, and DINA, formerly headed by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda...
...FBI is still looking for a third suspect in the case--Rogelio Paz, from Union City, N.J. Sources in the FBI told The New York Times last week that Townley contacted the Cuban suspects at least two times during the summer of 1976, three months before the assasination...
Nineteen months have elapsed since that tragic day in September; 19 months since the Justice Department investigation began. Only now do Michael Moffitt's original assumptions seem to be borne out by the facts FBI investigators have garnered. Moffitt is a soft-spoken 26-year-old. He is friendly, yet constrained; he seems to be goaded on by the urgency of his duties. The pain is there, but it is forceably overcome. Moffitt, who joined the IPS, a Washington-based think tank, five year ago and worked under Richard Barnett before joining Letelier, says he always worried about an attempted...
...accounts, Webster has been doing that at a breakneck pace, while making extra chores for himself by intentionally delaying for two months the appointment of an associate director. His most time-consuming task has involved wrestling with FBI budget problems and testifying about them before appropriation committees on Capitol Hill. Webster has also been working with the Justice Department in formulating a new charter for the FBI, which, Bell promises, should be ready by July. In short, Webster has been as busy as Americans would expect a new FBI director to be. As his knowledge of how the FBI functions...