Michael Townley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Townley

American murderer

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1942

Place of Birth: Waterloo, Iowa, United States

Profession: murderer, spy

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Michael Vernon Townley (born December 5, 1942) is a former agent of the CIA and Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional currently living under terms of the US federal witness protection program.
An operative of the Chilean secret police, Townley confessed, was convicted, and served 62 months in prison in the United States for the 1976 Washington, D.C., assassination of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States.
A coworker of Letelier's named Ronni Moffitt also died from the same attack.
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 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's use against political opponents along with Colonel Gerardo Huber and the DINA biochemist Eugenio Berríos.