Chile's Police Sent Townley, Wife Declares By Charles A. Krause and John Dinges Weaning-too Port Foreign Service . —Michael V. Townley, the American accused by U.S. authorities of participating in the 1976 assassination of Chilean diplomat , was selected by the Chilean secret police to arrange the CHILE, From Al In recent days, government spokes- assassination because of his contacts men have been narrowing their defini- in the Cuban exile community in Mi- nation, it remains to be seen how the tion of what constitutes the govern- ami, his Chilean wife said yesterday. Chilean government will react. meat, and, at one point, even sug- Mariana Callejas de Townley said she received a message from Townley through his parents telling her he was cooperating fully with U.S. authorities gested that DINA was really a part of and has named 10 persons who he said the military and not part of the gov- either ordered or carried out the Leto- ernment at all. Her assassination in Washington. Government spokesman have also said that Townley may have been While she refused to say whether hired on a "contract' basis for certain Townley told her the 10 names, she services but that he was never a full said she presumed that the ex-chief of time DINA employe. Callejas has said the secret police, Gen. Manuel Con- that her husband has received regular treras, was on the list. monthly checks of $400 to $500 from Callejas has been •the source of DINA since joining the Chilean secret much of what is known about her hus- force in 1974. band, most of the Information accu- Callejas said her husband had told rate but some of it not, and she ap- her that he was "following higher or- pears to have great influence over her ders" from his superiors in DINA husband. She said she was the one when he traveled to Miami In Septem- who urged Townley to cooperate with ber 1976. Letelier was killed by a car U.S. prosecutors once he was deported bomb in Washington on Sept. 21, 1976. to the United States. Callejas said she did not know She also appears to know many of whether the alleged order to arrange the details about the assassination al- for Letelier's assassination had come though she has been unwilling to re- personally- from Gen. Contreras or veal certain facts she believed could from a middle-level military official in damage her husband if he is brought the secret police. to trial. She said Townley' was chosen for the mission to the United States be- Townley is being held in the United cause he had become familiar and States without bail on a charge of con- friendly with Cuban exile groups spiracy to murder. [His lawyer, Sey- while living in Miami in 1973. At that mour Glanzer, could not be reached time, Townley—who has lived more for comment last night.] than half of his life in Chile and says Callejas said that her husband he considers himself a Chilean patriot is now cooperating with U.S. pros- —was himself somewhat of an exile. ecutors because he believes Chil- He had fled Chile because of ean President 's charges that he participated in a com- ,statements that the government here mando operation aimed at the govern- wants whoever might have been in- ment of former Chilean President Sal- volved in the Letelier assassination to vador Allende. The clandestine raid, be brought to justice. in the southern city of Concepcion, She said her husband had never was against an electrical installation been urged by any Chilean official to there and led to the death of a night reveal who allegedly ordered him to watchman. go to Miami and arrange for Cubans to carry out the purported mission. Townley was simply taking Pinochet at his public word, she said. Pinochet has said publicly several times that his own conscience is clear and that he does not believe that any- one in his government ordered the as: sassination. Now that Townley, according to his wife, has told the United States which members of Chile's old secret police force, the Directorate of National In- telligence (DINA), ordered the assassi- See CHILE, A21, Cot. 1