NERVE GAS BROUGHT INTO U.S. IN LETELIER PLOT, TOWNLEY SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680024-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 13, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By John bi. Goshko . ""; ~ ::. ~, It could also beooxae a poetical ~s- Y;ventuaity, the memo continues, -~
ws~tungton Poscssattwtltec.::;~ , ? _- sue, kindling for the rontinuing con- Propper and Branch discovered that
11~ichael. Vernon 'Townley; the= troversy over President Ranger's de- " `Project Andrea'.involved the man-
American-boor Chilean.:agent~_ who- vision to-. improve U.S. ties and ufacture of nerve gas by DIVA,
directed -the 19?fi. assassination:-o~,_ renew military ties with the. regime which was to be utilized against Ar-
former Chilean ambassador Ozlanda , o~ Chilean President Augusto Piro- gentina and Peru is . the event of
Letelier, has told the FBI that at one"- chef, despite its history of repzession hc~-tilities between these countries
point he had -a Quantity` `of>~aieadly and its refusal to cooperate with U.S. and Chile." ~ ,
nerve gas concealed irr a Chanel No. investigations of the murder plot. According to Propper and Branch;
~ perfume atomizer brought into the~~ On .Monday, House-Senate con- Townley, actin; for DINA, manufaca
United States for possible?use in the fetees are scheduled to try Lo racon? t?,~red and stored a_ quantity of the j
-plot. ~F. "~?4,.