Editing Michael Townley

'''Michael Vernon Townley''' (born December 5, 1942, in [[Waterloo, Iowa|Waterloo]], [[Iowa]]) is an [[United States|American]]-born former agent of the [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional]](DINA), the [[secret police]] of [[Chile]] during the regime of [[Augusto Pinochet]]. In 1978, Townley pled guilty to the 1976 [[Assassination of Orlando Letelier|murders]] of [[Orlando Letelier]], former Chilean [[ambassador]] to the United States, and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, Letelier's co-worker at the [[Institute for Policy Studies]]. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, serving 62 months. As part of his plea bargain, Townley received immunity from further prosecution; he was not extradited to [[Argentina]] to stand trial for the 1974 assassination of Chilean [[General]] [[Carlos Prats]] and his wife in [[Buenos Aires]].

In 1993, Townley was also convicted ''[[Trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' by an [[Italy|Italian]] court of carrying out the 1975 [[Rome]] murder attempt on [[Bernardo Leighton]]. Townley worked in producing [[Chemical weapon|chemical weapons]] for Pinochet's use against political opponents along with Colonel [[Gerardo Huber]] and the DINA biochemist [[Eugenio Berríos]].

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