Researching Michael Townley
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Some Famous People called Michael Townley
Michael Townley
Michael Vernon Townley (born December 5, 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa) is an 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 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 in absentia by an Italian court for carrying out the 1975 Rome murder attempt on Bernardo Leighton. Townley worked in producing chemical weapons for Pinochet's use against political opponents along with Colonel Gerardo Huber and the DINA biochemist Eugenio BerrÃos.
Source: Michael Townley, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaMichael Townley (politician)
Michael Townley (born 4 November 1934) is a former Tasmanian senator. He served both as an Independent and as a Liberal Party of Australia senator.
Townley was elected as an Independent Tasmanian Senator at the 1970 Half Senate election and the 1974 Double Dissolution Election.
In February 1975 he joined the Liberal party. This increased the Coalition's numbers in the Senate from 29 to 30 out of 60, and so was a factor in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
He remained a Liberal senator until his retirement at the 1987 Australian federal election.
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