Chile's Police Sent Townley, Wife Declares By Charles A. Krause and John Dinges Weaning-too Port Foreign Service SANTIAGO. Chile—Michael V. Townley, the American accused by U.S. authorities of participating in the 1976 assassination of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, 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- tion of what constitutes the govern- ami, his Chilean wife said yesterday. nation, it remains to be seen how the 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 While she refused to say whether said that Townley may have been Townley told her the 10 names, she hired on a "contract' basis for certain said she presumed that the ex-chief of services but that he was never a full the secret police, Gen. Manuel Con- time DINA employe. Callejas has said treras, was on the list. that her husband has received regular Callejas has been •the source of monthly checks of $400 to $500 from much of what is known about her hus- DINA since joining the Chilean secret band, most of the Information accu- force in 1974. rate but some of it not, and she ap- Callejas said her husband had told pears to have great influence over her her that he was "following higher or- husband. She said she was the one ders" from his superiors in DINA who urged Townley to cooperate with when he traveled to Miami In Septem- U.S. prosecutors once he was deported ber 1976. Letelier was killed by a car to the United States. bomb in Washington on Sept. 21, 1976. 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 Townley is being held in the United the mission to the United States be- States without bail on a charge of con- cause he had become familiar and spiracy to murder. [His lawyer, Sey- friendly with Cuban exile groups mour Glanzer, could not be reached while living in Miami in 1973. At that for comment last night.] time, Townley—who has lived more Callejas said that her husband than half of his life in Chile and says is now cooperating with U.S. pros- he considers himself a Chilean patriot ecutors because he believes Chil- —was himself somewhat of an exile. ean President Augusto Pinochet's He had fled Chile because of ,statements that the government here charges that he participated in a com- wants whoever might have been in- mando operation aimed at the govern- volved in the Letelier assassination to ment of former Chilean President Sal- be brought to justice. vador Allende. The clandestine raid, She said her husband had never in the southern city of Concepcion, been urged by any Chilean official to was against an electrical installation reveal who allegedly ordered him to there and led to the death of a night go to Miami and arrange for Cubans watchman. 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 .