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Appearance by Town1ey before Attorney General Rector Orozco and

Chief C1erk Jaime Vergara

(This statement is the antithesis of what Town1ey stated

in thc United States fo11owing his agreement with Propper. At the

time he made it Town1ey was free (he was never in custody in Chile.

March 1978. Appearance of Mr. Michae1 Vernon ~n1ey We1ch,

United States citizen, a1ien identification No. 4369118-K, married

to Mariana Ca11e~as, domici1ed at Va111a [sic] Naranja 4925, Lo Curro,

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e1ectronic technician and expert in hydrau1ic~

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homicide, which case is now on file, wfto examinea under oathAmade the

fo11owing statement:

a. In October or November 1974 the owner of the house which

1 was renting at the time to1d me that she knew an officia1 who was

very interested in meeting me because of my work with a c1andestine

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radio during the[popu1arL~~in/period. This is how at the end of

October or the beginning of November of that year I met then Lt. Col.

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in the c1andestine radio Radio Liberacion which we operated as a mobi1e

station in Santiago. I remember that at the time we 1aughed a lot

about the fact that Pedro Espinoza had been after me then because of

the operation of that very radio. Later, about the end of November

1974 he to1d me that because of my se1f-taught know1edge and creative

abi1ities in the are a of e1ectronics it wou1d be very usefu1 for me

to speak with the then Major Viane1 Va1divieso who was the head of the

e1ectronics section of DINA. At that time we a1so began to speak with

Pedro Espinoza about my acquaintence with anti-Castro Cuban groups

in Miami because of the fact that I had 1ived and worked'in that city

for four years in areas 1arge1y inhabited by Cubans.

The information which I provided him inc1uded, for examp1e, the

existence of the Brigada 2506 made up of the six fighters from the

Bay of Pigs, the Abda1a groups, a customer who said that he be10nged

to Alfa 66, the Frente de Liberacin Nacional Cubano or FLNC, and

other minor groups. I must emphasize that my know1edge of these groups

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of the members as customers in my mechanics shop and~other times

through conversations over coffee and in my workshop.

I am a very unsociab1e person who does not go out. I read a

great dea1 of technica1 information and ba~ica11y dedicate myse1f to

my work, which exp1ains why my know1edge of the information in question

is superficial.

It seems to me that at the end of November 1974 I was first

contacted by Major Va1divieso to whom I was introduced by Pedro Espinoza.

From that time on we stayed in touch. Our conversations were principa11y

technica1 and I was hired as a paid informant and a technica1 consu1tant.

1 shou1d c1arify that in the beginning my duties within DINA were

pure1y e1ectronic. In January, however, I took on the dual roles of

informer and technica1 consu1tant to which I made reference. For my

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work asan informant I received a fixed month1y sa1ary in escudos, an

amount that at that time was rather meager, by which I was ob1igated

to accept occasiona1 assignments as a mechanic, specifica11y the repair

of e1ectronic equipment.

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 At the end of the second week of December 1974 1 had to travel

to the United States to see about the possibility of purchasing electronic. . . .

counterweight equipment for use in electronic security. For this trip

1 used a regular United States passport, in the name of Kennet Enyart,

which 1 had acquired in October 1973 from a U.S. citizen of that name,

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~ to be sure of being able to return to Chile in view of the suit which

had possibly been brought against me in connection with the events

of channel 5 in Concepcion, the resulta of which were a quasi crime.

The tickets were given to me by a lower-level DINA employee,

whose narne and other details 1 cannot remember. 1 received the regular

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per diern~ plus a lump sum for the purchase of theAelectronic equipment,

During the week which 1 spent in the united States, specifically

in Miami and Washington, D.C., spending only six hours in the latter,

1 made contact with several persons. This included a telephone call

to General Washington Carrasco and a visit to Colonel Sepulveda who

was the Consul at Miami. They helped me to send the equipment back

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to Santiago. When 1 called General Carrasco 1 introduced myself as

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Juan Andres Wilson Silva, which was the alias that 1 have always used

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in my w~rk with DINA.

The reason that 1 was sent to buy the equipment was because

1 was an American citizen and because of my knowledge of electronics.

My citizenship was useful because an American citizen can freely enter,

leave, and purchase anything he wants in the Uni ted States wi thout ':,

leaving any trace for the U.S. intelligence services or without attractin

much attention, a procedure commonly used by the intelligence services

of the world.

From that time on, 1 believe it was from January 1975 on, 1

was involved in two parallel types of activities with little, or more

accurately, no connection between~ 1 was both a technical consultant

to DINA and a paid informant in charge of my own network of sub-

informants, analyzing through me the information that was later turned

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over to la Central fheadquar' B7] through the regular proper channels.

1 returned to Chile with part of the equipment, having shipped

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about the middle of December. 1 delivered the equipment to DINA and

turned over the receipts to Lt. Col. Iturriaga. As for my professional

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relationship with that officer, we first tried to coordinate the

information which 1 had concerning anti-Castro organizations in the

united States and thereafter the means of utilizing that information

and my contacts to expand upon it and to set up an organized network

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of informants and subinformants

1 met General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda at the beginning of

1975, but only briefly and circumstantially. On that occasion a Lt.

Col. whose name 1 cannot remember, it could have been Nuez or Nuo,

told me that General Contreras wanted to see me and had me stop by

his office where he introduced me as Andres Wilson. The General,

then a Colonel, told me he wanted to congratulate me on my mission for

the purchase of the equipment.

At the end of January or the beginning of February, approximately,

when 1 was in the office of Major Iturriaga, the Major received a

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phone ca11 in connection with which he asked me if I knew Orlando

Bosch, Guillermo Novo, and Dionisio Suarez. I to1d him that I on1y

knew about Orlando Bosch and I didn't 1ike what I had heard. After

he had finished the te1ephone ca11 I to1d him that I didn't 1ike it

because his group had been infi1trated by the CIA and the FBI,

specifica11y by a Mono Navarrete. My final recommendation was that

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the service not enter into contact with that group.

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I woald !hention 't:-e the Court that at the time I purchased the

equipment to which I have referred I went, among other firms, to the

Audio Inte11igence Devices (AID) whose President Jack Ho1kom was

at that time the Director of the Nationa1 Inte11igence Academy. I

immediate1y hit it off with him because of his open1y anticommunist

position which he demonstrated through his admiration for the September

11 movement and his wi11ingness to he1p Chile. At another time I

exp1ained the prob1em of the sale of that equipment to Chile, that

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it required specia1 permits from the U.S. Government, which was not

a prob1em providing that a document was submitted to them in which he

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could state that he was not selling equipment to interests that

were contrary to the United States Government (marxists or organized

crime). I stated this in a docurnent here in Santiago; I don't remember

if it was Cornrnander Nunez or Col. Espinoza.

Later a business-size envelope arrived at my house containing

a blank piece of paper with a letterhead and a rubber stamp at the

bottom. I should also add that at this time I cannot say whether or

not the document bore a signature, but I am almost certain that it

was not signed. The Court has in evidence a photocopy which is a

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page~ nilAQ [iI.i.~] and states "that the photocopy which at this time

is exhibited with certain reservations faithful to the original received

these day [sic] ," indicates with certain reservations because the text

corresponding to the body of the letter was drafted and written

by the predinatacion [?] that is found under the second line under

the signature and perhaps he didn't write the first one, that is the

abbreviation EMS-[illegible] .REF.-CCM.IO-I02 to DINA of a date." [sic]

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the Court that I remember seeing in the envelope containing the document

a piece of paper which did bear a signature, a piece of paper which was

from a photocopy. I am unable to remember at this timelwhatlex~c~l~J

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1 did with the letter once it was definite, whether I mailed it or

whether I delivered it personally on a later trip during a visit to

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AID. Upon my return to Chile I began to work with the group in charge

of electronic intelligence. The tasks which I performed were teaching,

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maintenance, and modification of equipment.

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In>february I made rny seco~d tr~ ~g ~Ae YRitea 6~a~ee ~ei~! the

s~me documents as in my previous trip. My assignments were:

l. To again contact the AID company in order to see their

entire line of equipment. VXR-S equipment plus a transmitter, a mini

pocket transmitter, were purchased and later sent to Chile.

2. The second was to make the necessary contacts within

the anti-Marxist and anti-Castro Qommunity in tbe ITnited 5tates Tbe

purpose of the contacts was to maintain an information network ana

to try to carry out a public relations campaign in the United States,

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basically of friendship, since that is a medium that I can handle in
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the United States. In addition to what I have indicated for the second

mission, I was to make contact with a Croatian who claimed to be a

former Yugoslavian Colonel of the DERMAJ in charge of Yugoslavian

intelligence. At first I liked the man but later their were sorne

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incongruous things which now make me suspect that he was involved in

obtaining paid false documentation or had sorne other ideological motive.

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Abdala, FLNC, and others and Cuban anti-Marxist elements of which,

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in my judgment, there were only twO that coula he trnstea. These were

A~dala and the Movimiento Nacio~al Gysaae (J~C). The contacts with

Abdala never went any further they were simply cordial relations. The

contac~ with the MNC were made in the following manner through the

Croa tian Colonel.

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the ideological or public chief of the MNc

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said that since they had come with Boch, during his statl in Chile 1

he had not made contact with them for the aforementioned reasons, i.e. L
Boch. In the meantime he had made as many inquiries as possible

with respect to the reliability, political stance, and strength of

this group. The current opinion is that the MNC was clean in the sense
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and, that it had a record of many operatives which had never been legally

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l~ves. In addition to him there NaS anot~Qr ~an prQ8QR~ WAQ~ later

learned to be Dionisio S])arez.~fter establishing the necessary

confidence we talked about baN ta apen up a cornrnun;catioPR Retwork

.::.nd how they could cantrisl:i'te 'te 'the 6e!''te~er 11 Ueoemenbot Their

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news clippings, and all the information they could re arding

Chile's position in areas about which they could 2ather information.

After having established these contacts and the necessary future

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cornmunication channe1s, I returned to Santiago. I don't remember the

date but I was here about a month or a 1itt1e more. Prom that time

on, being here in Chile, I dedicated myse1f to the work in e1ectronics

which I described before, and to receiving and eva1uating the information

received from the contacts and the informants networks that had been

set up. ~s work continued until the end of September and the beginning
of October 1975 when I had to make a third trip to the United States

for the same reasons as the previous trips. During this new trip I

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went again to AID to look at new equipment and systems there. Sorne

sma11 purchases were made and there was sorne discussion with Mr. Ho1kof

and his director Mr. Seiter regarding the possibi1ities of designing

a system of remote control with many termina1s that cou1d be activated

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The conversation was motivated by remarks

by Mr. Ho1kof in reference to something similar that had been done in

a Midd1e Eastern country. In ~rforming the second part of my missio~

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Miami I met Ignacio Novo, the brother of Guillermo Novo. At different

times I met with various members of the MNC in Miami and New York.

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consequence of which I suggested cutting off all relations with them,

and there were courtesy visits with the Abdala boys. After completing
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to promote a MNC public appearance, together with Chilean Governrnent

officials in New York, which took place in November 1975 with very

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to the Chief of the BH~.r~~Departrnent regarding~tha~ part of the

mission and the inforrnation networks, and to the Chief of the Electronics

rntelligence Group regarding the electronics portion. Up to the end

of this year I performed the regular activities which I have already

described. At sorne point during January 1976, when I was on vacation,

1 asked to speak with Colonel Contreras, who was in Santo Domingo on

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In that same month of January 1976 1 went to Co10ne1 Contreras' house

in Santiago to de1iver to him a draft of my thoughts about en1arging Radio

Nacona1. In February the on1y pertinent point in my normal activities

was to de1iver to him a more thorough report attached to a report of the

same Radio Nacional and concerning its en1argement. My appointment in his

Santiago office 1asted on1y a few minutes. From February unti1 my trip to

Paraguay 1 carried out my usual activities as described above. There were

on1y two exceptions. 1 requested of Co10ne1 contre~ras' aide an appointment

in order to de1iver a report to him about situations with regard to electronic

inte11igence; the appointment in his office did not 1ast more than ten minutes.

~ith respect to Rolando Otero, 1 met him at the en~ February 1976 when
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1 kaaxx8xaxxaRaxax..axtK8xKtxk a Major Torres to attend a meeting with Otero

at the Emperador Hotel. Major Torres exp1ained that this meeting was necessary

for an eva1uation of Otero because he was requesting appointments with very

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ta1king more than ten minutes in this meeting. 1 formed yery negative

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. of the group that he clairoed ro represent, tbe FNJC. which he said

was a powerfu1 and anti-Marxist, anti-Castro group. 1 knew that the FNLC

..was at tllat time in a situaton of bankruptcy and failure. Talgo bad a

ne&ative opinion about his efforts to solicit funds. using indirectly the

support of the Government of Chile. After the meeting 1 reported my impression

ora11y to Major Torres and was la ter requested by the Chief of the Foreign

Department to make a more thorough report on Otero. 1 asked my Cuban contacts

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in the U.S. for inforrnation. One said he was being investigated by U.S.

law-enforcement authorities for placing explosive devices; two others said

they liad a bigh regard for him; and three said they completely mistrusted

the people around him, such as "Mono" Navarrete, one of his principal friends,

and Frank Castro, domiciled in the Dominican Republic.

Another pertinent fact about Otero was the second meeting I had

with him, which took place in an automobile and the purpose of which was to

seek information about Navarrete and information about the use of Chilean

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documents by an alieno After that, when/Henry Kissinger's visit to Chile

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crazy attack on Kissinger. ..The Cubans hated Kissinger beca use he was pushing

expulsion and his surrender to the FBI. At first I thought this had been due

to XH2 Investigations [Criminal Investigations Department?:! but, on a date

which I do not recall, I was called by Colonel Espinoza to his office and
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accompanied him to the office of Co~onel Contreras who showed me a letter the

FBI had sent him and congratulated me for aJxpaxx the part I had played in
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regard to the Otero problem. I~old the Foreig~Department, Colonel Espinoza,
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and anyone who would listen to me Bt tbat t1~8 abg~t my dlla8rQ8~8At wit b and
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ul~ppiness about Otero' s delivery to JI S law-enforcemen t authorities . I

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work in establishing networks within the Community. Otero was an active

member of the Cuban communities in the U.S. and they defended him. There

W[\S [\ pllblic outcry llgainst Chile throughout tlle lIispanic community, and

1 even received information that Sorne half-crazy Cuban groups were thinking

about planting explosive devices axxeKtiRX~X.X. . .RXX.fftE.a against Chllean

interests and Chi1ean missions in the U.S. and that it was essential for me

to go there persona11y to try to restore friendly relations. 1 talked ~y

telephone with Guillermo Novo and Dionisio Su~rez; they told me that they

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turn Otero over to U.S. authorities, that presumably that would mean a minimum

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of 99 years' imprisonment for him. Ilri; . y .f 00)' apBlya16 islin the letter

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signed and sent by Guillermo Novo to the Government of Chile and refusing to

attend the pub1ic receptions tor tbe traipin ship Esmeralda in New York for

the Fourth of Ju1y 1976.

Trip to Paraguay.

The most important reason for my request to travel to the United States

was to try to reestab1ish my connections that 1 had lost because of the Otero

affair;aR.~ the second reason was that the electronic equipment ordered from

AID was being de1ayed--when the date was almost due they informed me of a delay

for 30 days more; the third was because of the report of lack of electronic

equipment of better quality and to establish new sources for acquiring it.

1 made my request through the Chief of the Foreign Department and through
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Colonel Espinoza on various occasions. There must be a record of this

almost immmdiately after the surrender of Otero. 1 did not receive an

affirmaliv(' reply untl one dl1Y 1 W118 Eaiia 8111llmoned by Colonel Espinoza,

who gave me the following instructions. He authorized my trip to the U.S.

stated tt:~p should be m~~l:! with an officer

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and, addition to what 1 ha to do, 1 wts to l{compan y ~ of(icer andl

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assi / him with English and help him get e told me not

to worry about the xx.xxx passport of JKenet Angers L;i~7 beca use he

knew 1 had some fears about using it; that 1 was going to travel with this

officer to Paraguay where they would give me a Paraguayan passport for travel

to the V.S. to carry out the assignment. 1 should point out that in giving me

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my specific duties, stated above, Colonel Espinoza told me that capJtain

Fernandez and 1 were not to be seen by each other's contacts in the V.S.

After that meeting 1 received the per diem funds and tickets, 1 believe about

10 days of per diem. f.x We met with Fernandez in DINA Headquarters, whom 1

only knew by sight--perhaps we had exchanged a few words in groups. 1 can

describe him as a good military officer with a restless nature. There was

not much communication between us because 1 am the exact opposite, but we

became friends for the time being. As to the trip itself and the ,ii planning~-

and this must have been the end of July or the beginning of August, the trip

was planned for a certa in day but 1 told Fern~ndez 1 could not leave on that

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first he xa~xxaf.aa. but then said "O .K., you know wha t you are doing."

Fernndez left first, perhaps with the name of Rivadeneira, and 1 left two

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prohably since 1 always travel on that airline or try too In Argentina 1

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met Captain Fernndez at the ell kU8 stqp~ 10cated in the center of the

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city, taking a taxi to go to xia hotel, the Republic 1 think, iR facing the

Obelisk. 1 am almost sure Fernndez continued in the taxi to his hotel. We

kaax,xaxiB.K1J arranged that we would meet early the next morning and that

Fernandez would come by to pick me up to continue on to Paraguay. We traveled

from the Obelisk to Ezeisa in a taxi and then took a Lan-Chile flight to

Asuncion.

On arriving at the Asuncion airport we went through identification and

irnmigration procedures and then took a taxi downtown. We asked the driver

about hotels and he suggested the Seorial among others; this hotel is famous in

Asuncion because the owner is a Frenchman who carried out a big swindle in

France. The hotel is somewhat distant from the downtown area but near the

offices of the Paraguayan Ministry of Defense where we had sorne errands.

We arrived in Paraguay on a Tuesday, about mid-day, and 1 think we contaated

Paraguayan lntelligence that same day. During the seven or eight days that

we were waiting for the passports we went to check out Paraguayan Intelligence

or Lraveled around town. 1 remained in the hotel most of the time. 1 do not

recall the date, but it must have been the day prior to or the day of our

departure from Par~guay~ that Paraguayan . ,"Intelligence

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passports were ready. 1 can not state tka precisely the Ktx~ circumstances

of the delivery of the passports beca use so much time has passed. Questioned
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arraignment, if what is shown are photographs of the original passports

that were issued in Paraguay, the photographs SX.H exhibited are copies of

the passports that were delivered in the name of Juan Williams Rose, a name

1 chose,composed from my code name, Williams de Angers, and Rose because it

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occurred to me at the momento 1 inform the Court that on folio 15 1 am ~hown

a copy of die passport delivered to me that must be the one corresponding to

the passport of Alejandro Romeral, which could indicate a repetition. 1 can

give K.X no opinion about the passport of Alejandro Romeral because 1 did not

see it. Moreover, with regard to the passport in the name of Juan Williams

Rose, 1 only had it in my hands for a few minutes and then Captain Fernandez

kept it in his possession. 1 do not know what happened to it latero With

regard to our photographs that do not appear in the documents that 1 have been

shown, atk they were taken in a ~*-xs photo shop and t.K"~ we gave them to

Paragua~an Intelligence. 1 do recall that we turned in two large photos and

five small, p.SSpBxtxstx.x.... ID-card ones. ~x~.xH.*xk 1 cannot verify that

Captain Fernandez made a telephone call to San~~~~o to report that we had the

passports or they were delivered to us the following morning, but as a result

of that call our trip to the U.S. was cancelled and we had to return to Santiago

immediately, or at least that is what Captain Fernandez told ima me.

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On the day of our departure, around 4:15 on an Aero1ineas Paraguayas plane,

we went to Ezeisa, spent the night in Buenos Aires--I don't reca11 the hotel-

and the fo11owing day continued on Aero1ineas Argentinas, 1 think, to Chile.

1 think we took a taxi to downtown Santiago and that Fernandez got out at Avenida

Matta, taking a bag of mine in which he had put severa1 things of his and agreeing

to return it 1ater. 1 continued to Calle San Francisco, to the house of a

friend where 1 ca11ed my wife to pick me up.

1 think Captain Fernandez reported on the trip; he wou1d have had to do so.

with Pedrito Espinoza

1 returned to my usual activities. We spoke 1ater~about the fai1ure of our

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trip to Paraguay, or the continuaton of .x i t to the U.S., te1ling him tha,f

1 wOltld have 1iked to continue to the U.S. for the JIX reasons that 1 have stated

at 1ength.

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DINA to send me to the U.S. again to carry out the three objectives 1

lIad rcqucsted in my unsuccessful trip through Paraguay. 1 ma.de this

request on repeated occasions to Colonel Espinoza and Lucho Gutierrez

of the foreign operations department , telling them that if there were

no funds for my trip they should at least get me the necessary papers

to carry out the aforementioned mission, and that 1 would find the

necessary funds to finance my trip. 1 do not remember on what day it was

that a person whose name 1 cannot recall, but whose face 1 do remember-

someone from the Documents Office, 1 think--asked me for a passport size

photograph. When 1 asked what the picture was for, the person told me.

"Don't worry, you'll find out." Several days later 1 received--I do not

remember whether it was at home or at the headquarters--a properly issued

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Chilean passport bearing my photograph and with a visa to enter the U.S.

The passport was issued to Hans Peter Silvaoy. For occupation it said

something relating to CORFO. 1 should explain that on thaf occasion 1

was not given per diem or any other type of funds. 1 traveled to the US

on September 8, 1976 and arrived at New York' s Kennedy !.irport on September 9,

1978 at about noon. 1 believe that during the time 1 spent at Miami 1

telephoned my father to say hello and 1 then continued on the same

airplane to New York. Something interesting happened at Kennedy Airport

when 1 went through immigration. The U.S. Immigration officers have a

control book. The officer looked at my passport, checked it against the

book, and found the name Hans Petersen. He examined my passport several

times, reread the inscription, and finally shrugged his shoulders and

returned it to me. This left me quite "shaken" since 1 thought that the

inscription could refer to same other Hans Petersen or could be something

referring to the passport 1 was carrying. Therefore, from that moment on

1 was quite jumpy. This eventually led me to dispose of the passport. 1

left Customs in the company of friends who were Lan-Chile pilots.

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1 should point out to Your Honor that following my first trip to

the U.S. in 1974 1 mentioned on my return the need to establish a normal

channel for handling our correspondence. It was for that reason that
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1 got in touch with several LAN officers--as 1 was leaving in the company

of the ~ementioned pilots--in a hallway away from the customs area.

1 heard someone shouting "Hey, gringo," and when 1 turned around 1 saw

Capto Armando Fernndez Larios accompanied by two women. 1 asked him

"What are you doing here?" and he replied with the same question and told

me that he had come to visit his family and was returning to Santiago

that same night because his father was very ill. In general, the

conversation was completely inconsequential. He introduced me to the

two women. He said one was his sister and the other one a Miss Walker.

That surname stuck with me because 1 have some friends by that same name

at Las Condes. 1 remember that Miss Walker had long blond hair, was very

conceited, had a grouchy expression on her face, was very touchy, and

gave the impression that everything bothered her. Her general appearance

and manners seemed unpleasant to me; in short, 1 disliked intensely for

no particular reason. When 1 asked Fernndez who she was he made a derogatory

gesture as though to convey the idea that being next to her was sheer

martyrdom. Shortly after 1 met Fernndez and he introduced me to the two

women, one of them tall and dark haired, who 1 believe was his sister,

we stepped aside to ta1k for a few minutes. The women waited in animated

and friendly conversation. From there we went upstairs to a hall on the

second floor. Captain Fernndez carried two suitcases, 1 carried my suit

case and briefcase, and Fernndez' sister carried a purse. There on the
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second floor 1 left them for a while in order to go see someone from LAK

in order to do my friend Fernndez a favor--which consisted U talking to

the LAN people to get him shifted from tourist to first class and to have

him admitted to the VIP waiting lo"nge. 1 should add that 1 learned at

that time that Fernndez' sister was traveling to Washington almost immediately

1 remember noticing two individuals at the airport. One had the un

mistakable clean-cut look of the Mormons and the other one looked unkempt.

Seeing them together seemed strange and drew attention. They went by us
several times. as we were heading for the LAN VIP lounge. Af'ter we reached

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the lounge we waited outside, alone, for a while, for the sister and the

other girl to return. It was then that 1 saw the two aforementioned

individuals again. They continued to walk around together. 1 also

reltlt;lllucr Llw. L l"el'lllluc: lJought a taLle -/llouel dn:txiK digital electric

clock in one of the second-floor shops in front of the VIP lounge entrance.

It was at that moment that the sister and the other girl arrived and,

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to eat something with some LAN employees, then 1 inquired about renting

a car, and later 1 returned to the VIP lounge to say goodbye. After that

1 went to get the car and drove to the vicinity of Nwe [sic] City and

ijwe [sic] Jersey taking great care to avoid any possible followers.

1 finally arrived in a motel near Nwe City and i t was there that 1

arranged BJI1 to meet with Guillermo Novo, lIBBKWhose nom de guerre was
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.... otero. Guillermo Novo' s actual matronymic is San Paul. We

met at la Estrella restaurant in Nwe City--the same restaurant where we

had first )ecome acquainted. The meeting was friendly, but cold. 'I'he

conversation
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was not 19n9. BasicalJy, at that meeting we decided what

we ,were going to talk about in the next seyeral days. We did not meet

the following day, but we met the day after that and the meeting was

It took place in my hotel room.

.....also attended by Dionisio Suarez. During

that and other subsequent meetings hat 1 shall not describe in detall

be~ause they dealt with the same subject. we discuased the possibilitiea

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ways to start rumors .justifying and explaining toa. otero' s arrest

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blame otero himself for "goofing" and entering Chile with his own papera,
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which had been detected by the Imjte d states Secret Service dur ing tbeir

i~spection preceding Kissinger's arrival and it had been requested that

h~ be turned over to the FBL For aecurity reasons 1 requested Santiago

to send me the papers 1 had under the name of Kenet Angers and these were

sent to me through the LAN-Chile channel. Once 1 had the passport, 1

changed motels several times for safety reasons. When 1 got the Kenet

Angers papers 1 disposed of the Hans Petersen Silv~assport. 1 succeeded

in placing the U.S. control card aboard an Iberia flight from New York
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Silva from the U.S. After 1 changed motels the meetings were held in

public places and 1 did not disclose my address. The results of the
showing that
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the resumption of relations would be gradual, that they were not angry

with me personally, but that they were resentful of the Chilean attitude
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~eeting with the OPICE he told me that the Director of the National

Movement was the summary of all prior conversations[sic]. They posed some

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~ a quiet 'place, preferablv in tbe COJlutry, where sick women may be

1}ept [and] training may be given. At no time ]IJI;K were their armaments

~cussed. 1 did not commit rnyself. 1 agreed only to serve as the

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lnaterialized.
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With respect to the other questions to which 1 have referred,

they pertained in particular to ~. Otero's arrest in Chile. 1

belieye that Andy Roster was one of the suprem:et,:aders o the me. He

attended one meeting, because 1 had the impression that another participant

referred to him. by na1Jle. During rny stay in New York 1 ... was in DIJl touch

by telephone on several occasions with rny sister. 1 also visited her home

several times--I believe no more than three. The last time 1 was in her

home was on September 19 and 1 went [from thereB to Nwe Air Airport where

1 boarded a flight to Miami. At Miami 1 ei><: believe that 1 spent the

night at a hotel mmx in front of the Airport. 'I'te following day 1 got
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in touch with my father at XkR office. 1 got in touch on the Sa1Jle subject

and for the same purposes with the Cubans at New York. 1 had conversations

~th Felipe Riveras, the ideological leader of the MNC. The conversation

01'1(; or two days later there yaa epoUloQr Qomrerseti 00 with Guillermo Novo

und other eH Fftltwpprpm MNC ] eeders. Apparently this conversation was

more friendly and there were sqrne favorable comments with respect to it.

1 was also in touch on two or more occasions with Ignacio Novo, who lives

in Miarni. Those conversations were very friendly because he is a very

effusive persono 1 was also in touch with Croat Crl Blado. Those conversations

were on the same subject and, since he was not so affected by the Cuban
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of information would resume. During those days in Miami I encountered

the problem of how I would return to Chile. Since I did not have a

passport or the means to return under the name of Hans Petersen, I IL...
could not use the return ticket. On several occasions I attempted to

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obtain reimbursement for the ticket through LANAfriends at Miami, but I

did not succeed. During those days I went to AID because when I was in

New York part of my mission was to maintain contact with new sources

of supply of electronic devices. My attempts were completely unsuc

cessful because one of the contacts, Mini Miterman, had retired and the

other one, Ben Yamil, was a swindler.

Once at AID, I don't remember the occasion or the date and I

am almost certain that I went more than once between September 19th

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and 24th, I spoe with the President and the Technical Director

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regarding the problems that I had to fight Efoz] the equipment that

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I made them see the urgency and the importance of this equipment for

USo There was no excuse for any further delay. During my visit to

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AID they took out several kinds of electronic things and and various

pieces of new equipment were dispatched.

Documents of Folios 7,8,10,11, and 12

The document of folio 7 corresponds to my order from 1975, during

my first visit that year to the United States. The elements given

there are devices for use in electronic intelligence and counter

intelligence.

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The second No. 94005, with nicadas [?] No. 94056 is a set of batteries

for a transmi tter, the third is a battery charger, the fourth--Special "~., I

Antenna--is a special antenna for a microtransmitter, the fifth--No.

91402 XMTR--accesory hoster with antena [sic] is a portable transmitter

sobaquera [shield?] with a microphone antenna. the acronyrn Consultec

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Ltda. was invented by me in order to avoid any identification of Chile

with the purchase.

With respect to the document of folio 8, BXR-S cornmunication

2- waik -XMTR and RCDR, an battery charger, an battery for about [sic],

that is a set of body transmission and reception. 903 A Transmitel

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replacement transmitter for the BXR-S seto

The following two are spare parts for the first two. The
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last Special form the comunication, modification for about [sic] is

a special transmission estelacion [?], mentioned above. It should be

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said that I recognize the document but I do not recognize, nor do I

have any knowledge of having seen the notations written in the rimars

[?] section referring to General Washington Carrasco and to Andres

Wilson. However, as I said before, I remember having spoken with L

General Carrasco, but that was in December 1974. It is possible that

in this first purchase of 1974 that I might have given the name of

General Carrasco as a reference for the final destination of the

purchase. Regarding the document of folio 10, Trasmitel, this i8

a tracking microtransmitter, Power Artefact. It is a power amplifier

for the first items. It i8 noted that these items were returned for

repairs. The signature given, Kent Anyers, is one that I wrote and has

to do with the identity of Kenet Anyers which I assumed on various

occasions. With respect to the document O"

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the President of AID Mr. Ho1kom. I have nothing to do with the

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sending and the writing of this 1etter or with its signature Jose

Fernandez. It cou1d have been Ro1f, one of the e1ectronics technicians

at DINA. I don't think that he cou1d have written the 1etter himse1f,

however, because he does not speak Eng1ish. With respect to the

document of folio 12, I remember having seen it under the same conditions

and circumstances as folio 12 [sic] and it wou1d be1ong, I think, to

the enve10pe in which the 1etter of folio 11 arrived.

Thereupon, and at the request of the deponent, and in order

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to verify his statements, a handwriting test was given in re1ation

to the aforesaid documents.

Questioned concerning the document of folio 8 and folio 2 of

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the records, with respect to the te1ephone numbers given there:

202-204-3696~2.2-331-6376and 202-331-0310, a11 of Washington, OC,

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one cou1d be the Mi1itary Mission of Chile at Washington because the

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third group of figures begins with O. In any case it is not true

that 1 would have left any number for Mr. Holkof to call me in

Washington. The only case in which I would have left a telephone

number for Holkof would have been for him to call from Dextor, and

then only for a couple of hours and no more since I was only in Dexton
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Return Trip to Chile

As 1 said earlier, 1 got rid of the Han Petersen Silva passport.
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Consequently 1 was left with the nonendorsable LANhticket in that name

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which could only be refunded in Chile in pesos~ What I did was te

have a friend in the company pay for a ticket in his name. I requested

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it for a friend, since he knew me as Andres Wilson. That is how we

did it. He gave me the ticket with which I traveled to Chile under

the name of Kenet Angers. I paid the aforesaid friend for the ticket

in Santiago somewhat later after I had getten back the money for the

ticket made out to Hans Petersen SilV;:

Relation to the Death of Orlando Letelier

The only thing I know with respect to the death of o. Letelier

is what I read in the papers. I should say that on the day of the
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evenb 1 was in Miami. On the morning of that same day 1 bought sorne

small gifts for the children and at sorne time in the morning I met

with Felipe Riveros, the head of MNC, and 1 had lunch with Ignacio

al t-l.-( "';'L', '

Novo who on tltat oeeaeion informed me of the death of O. Letelier.
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Asked to say whether in sorne of the meetings which I had with

the Cubans to which I have referred I gave them money or any documents,

with respect to money I never '"

ga~ve them money or any documents .
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With respect to documents there was an exchange of letters regarding

functions of the service. I also inform you that during my stay in

Miami, and prior to my return to Chile, I stayed at the house of my

parents, with the sole exception of the night of my arrival when I

spent the night at a hotel in front of the airport on September 19th.

Description of his Final Trip with that of Juan Williams Rose and
Alejandro Romeral Jara
During my stay in the United States in September 1976 I had

no contact with any official who was a member or a representative of

the Government of Chile or its Armed Forces, with the exception of the

accidental meeting with Capta in Fernandez Larios at Kennedy Airport

in New York. I had no knowledge of any trip made by anyone using the
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names of Juan Williams Rose or Alejandro Romeral Jara.

Admiral Macintire
1 don't know him but the only thing 1 know is that Guillermo
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Novo told me that the MNC had had contact with him.

Quatropillan Group
1 chose the name Quatropillan taking it from a local legend.

the full name was Quatropillan Center for Technical Research and

Development, of which 1 was the Director. This -group was subordinate

to another higher agency for purposes of administration and logistics

and under the cornmand of Lt. Col. Eduardo Iturria.

With respect to Lt. Col. Iturriaga, 1 can tell you that

professionally he is one of the most excellent officers that I have

ever known. He is intelligent, cautious, [illegible], and absolutely

loyal. He is the kind of person whose great drive focuses his energies

on his institution. Personally as a friend he is one of the best

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that 1 have ever had in my life. 1 stress this because it is very

difficult for me to get involved with or open myself up to people, but r

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Commander Iturriaga is an exception. The work of the Center was mainly

technical from the point of view of listeni,.ng [bugging?], if its

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mcmbcrs werc he who speaks most a secretary and two classes [sic].

The relations with the staff were strictly business and were very good

in that respecto With respect to Hermes and Eugenio Garrido, they

were not a part of the group and were a kind of super informer~ from

Patria y Libertad. Their personality was ultra-rightest, fascist in

style, and on many occasions gave excellent information. He [sic] is

an eccentric and difficult infividual.

Asked whether he is still at this time a paid informant of the

eN!, under the same conditions in which he worked for DINA, he indicates

that in fact they [sic] continue to be, no one to date having told

him to stop providing his services. He was even paid this month

in the amount of $11,000, more or less.

Asked to indicate how he would classify himself within the

Service he stated that he was not in any way an agent. He could be

a coordinator of information, a technical consultant, and a technical

planner, someone endowed with creativity and capable of getting things

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Aldo Vera Carafil, Raul Barandela Estevez, and Orlando Cruz Pino
With respect to the aforementioned names the only one that 1

believe 1 have heard is that of Mr. Cruz, although 1 don't remember

under what circumstances. 1 inform you that the manner in which the

Cubans work is to look for a specific name to designate revolutionary

type operators, claiming affiliation with a group that in reality is

nonexistent, Organizacin Cero for example. They even publish editorial-

and cornmentary-type articles in the newspapers under the assumed names.

Procir Incorporating [sic]

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a corporation in Florida. AII of the shares are owned by one persono

1 don't remember the total amount of capital stock, but 1 would guess

that it is very low, about US$3,000. With respect to the capital,

$US500 was paid out and then irnmediately, instaneously withdrawn.

It idea of its existence was to have a company in the USA which could

write under its letterhead to request information or purchase some

replacements or minor parts and intelligence devices. This explains

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eompany by that name in Florida, Proeir Ltda. There was an idea to

set up a eorporation by that name here in Chile, the purpose of whieh

would be similar to that of Proeer Ine., but it was never done.

(That was the entire first statement of Townley)

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