Michael Townley person
also: Richmond, Indiana, retired police chief, Michael Vernon Townley, Townley, Townsleys
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Claims (22)
Michael Townley ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier documented
“The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 37:39
Stefano Delle Chiaie worked_with
Michael Townley host_asserted
“The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 29:19
Michael Townley assassinated
Bernardo Leighton host_asserted
“who was the CIA guy working on Operation Condor in the area. The most notable was the assassination of Bernardo Leighton, a former Chilean interior minister in Rome. By the late 1970s, he had also established a presence in Bolivia.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 29:49
Michael Townley carried_out_attack
Chile host_asserted
“courier, whatever you want to call him, is Michael Vernon Townley. Townley has this whole, he's like a whole piece of work in and of himself. So you guys can take a note to go do further research on him. But his big element in Operation Gla…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 23:31
Michael Townley member_of
Paladin Group documented
“Using that equipment at the Dignity Colony would communicate to their counterparts in the other countries that they were there and they would assassinate them. That's basically what they did to the one guy that was in Italy. It's what they …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 36:10
Michael Townley member_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“He sided himself with the Sandinistas. He traded expertise with the Cubans, inviting Cuban doctors into Jamaica. And that, of course, pissed off the entire warmongering Washington, D.C. crowd. And so immediately, you know, he's branded a co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 52:46
Michael Townley member_of
DINA host_asserted
“feeling that the Nazi apparatus was not defeated in World War II. The key figure for Kondo on behalf of Dina was a man by the name of Michael Vernon Townley, one of the colony's key liaisons with the Chilean intelligence service. Townley ba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 12:35
Michael Townley supplied_arms_to
Paladin Group host_asserted
“and then using people in the CIA to smuggle them back into Chile. This, in light of all of the bombings in Chile in the run-up to the coup, was likely being supplied by Townley from the U.S., specifically from Miami. And keep in mind, Miami…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 33:41
Michael Townley trained
Chile host_asserted
“their citizens without leaving marks. He taught them how to disappear people. He taught them how to kidnap and torture people. There were tens of thousands of people that died as a result of those efforts. And eventually their resistance, t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:42:00
Michael Townley member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional book_quoted
“of the final stages to the Allende government was basically one bomb attack per hour in the final week every day. At least 24 bomb attacks every day for a week. No doubt the PL had a part in this campaign. Michael Vernon Townley, the DINA c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 32:11
Michael Townley funded
Patria y Libertad book_quoted
“De La Chez and the Dignity Colony had begun to collaborate with the PL as early as 1971. Townley initially aided the PL with the March of Empty Pots. Later, he was tasked with far more ambitious projects. In 1972, Townley had helped the PL …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 32:42
Michael Townley trained
Patria y Libertad book_quoted
“De La Chez and the Dignity Colony had begun to collaborate with the PL as early as 1971. Townley initially aided the PL with the March of Empty Pots. Later, he was tasked with far more ambitious projects. In 1972, Townley had helped the PL …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 32:42
Michael Townley assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:02:20
Michael Townley member_of
DINA documented
“As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:02:20
Michael Townley attempted_assassination_of
Bernardo Leighton host_asserted
“He organized two of the most infamous operations of Condor, the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton in Rome and the successful assassination of Orlando Lariere in Washington, D.C., which was the former Chilean ambassador that got s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 12:59
Michael Townley assassinated
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“He organized two of the most infamous operations of Condor, the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton in Rome and the successful assassination of Orlando Lariere in Washington, D.C., which was the former Chilean ambassador that got s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 12:59
CIA deployed
Michael Townley host_asserted
“Because it is illustrative of this entire collaboration that we just talked about in talking about Belgium. So we had the Richmond, Indiana, retired police chief deployed via the CIA to Chile, and he set up a house of torture. And it was a …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:41:31
Michael Townley traded_network_to
Cuba book_quoted
“He sided himself with the Sandinistas. He traded expertise with the Cubans, inviting Cuban doctors into Jamaica. And that, of course, pissed off the entire warmongering Washington, D.C. crowd. And so immediately, you know, he's branded a co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 52:46
Michael Townley trained
Dignity Colony host_asserted
“with each other, that they would kill each other's citizens if they tried to escape to that other country. So they had basically like an open border assassination program. So as early as 1974, months after the coup, Townley had been dispatc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 24:32
Michael Townley assassinated
Carlos Prats host_asserted
“Operation Condor in Latin America saw Gladio operatives like Stefano Deliciay, Klaus Barbie, and CIA's Michael Townley orchestrate coups and assassinations, including Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C., and Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires, u…”
▶ Gladio 101 @ 8:21
Michael Townley member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“in Washington, D.C. with a car bomb. Yeah, Townley, that's the same guy. Indeed, Townley appears to be a key figure in international assassinations all over. Because remember, this is part of Operation Condor. During Operation Condor, a gro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 24:01
Michael Townley supplied_arms_to
Patria y Libertad book_quoted
“He also mobilized youth gangs into neighborhood, quote unquote, defense units. Again, a play on words. They attacked Allende supporters. They had not a fucking thing to do with defense. Townley was forced into exile in the United States in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 33:11
Mentions (29)
▶ 8:21
Operation Condor in Latin America saw Gladio operatives like Stefano Deliciay, Klaus Barbie, and CIA's Michael Townley orchestrate coups and assassinations, including Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C., and Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires, u…
▶ 1:41:31
Because it is illustrative of this entire collaboration that we just talked about in talking about Belgium. So we had the Richmond, Indiana, retired police chief deployed via the CIA to Chile, and he set up a house of torture. And it was a …
▶ 37:39
The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…
▶ 52:19
one of the most effective trafficking groups in relation to the posses in the United States, rivaled only by the Crips and Bloods in L.A. Since the 1970s, Jamaica had been run by a socialist government headed by Michael Manley. He was a gra…
▶ 52:46
He sided himself with the Sandinistas. He traded expertise with the Cubans, inviting Cuban doctors into Jamaica. And that, of course, pissed off the entire warmongering Washington, D.C. crowd. And so immediately, you know, he's branded a co…
▶ 53:15
some of the Jamaican military over to fight against the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. That really pissed them off. So in 1977, two investigative reporters exposed a destabilization program against Manley's government, reportedly being ran by …
▶ 54:15
a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran, they just keep popping up, with a history of engaging in arms for drugs deals, was cited in Jamaica next to one of the bombings, according to the reporter. He actually got a picture of him. During the course of …
▶ 22:56
It basically is doing all the same things. So the go-between between the colony and the DINA, again, this is Chilean intelligence and a colony in Chile. So you would think that the go-between between those two things would not be an America…
▶ 23:31
courier, whatever you want to call him, is Michael Vernon Townley. Townley has this whole, he's like a whole piece of work in and of himself. So you guys can take a note to go do further research on him. But his big element in Operation Gla…
▶ 24:01
in Washington, D.C. with a car bomb. Yeah, Townley, that's the same guy. Indeed, Townley appears to be a key figure in international assassinations all over. Because remember, this is part of Operation Condor. During Operation Condor, a gro…
▶ 24:32
with each other, that they would kill each other's citizens if they tried to escape to that other country. So they had basically like an open border assassination program. So as early as 1974, months after the coup, Townley had been dispatc…
▶ 28:22
who was himself later held at the colony, told Amnesty International that it was a training center for national police, not just in Chile, but for other foreign governments. Instructions, let's see, they were given instructions by Townley, …
▶ 12:35
feeling that the Nazi apparatus was not defeated in World War II. The key figure for Kondo on behalf of Dina was a man by the name of Michael Vernon Townley, one of the colony's key liaisons with the Chilean intelligence service. Townley ba…
▶ 12:59
He organized two of the most infamous operations of Condor, the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton in Rome and the successful assassination of Orlando Lariere in Washington, D.C., which was the former Chilean ambassador that got s…
▶ 29:19
The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…
▶ 29:49
who was the CIA guy working on Operation Condor in the area. The most notable was the assassination of Bernardo Leighton, a former Chilean interior minister in Rome. By the late 1970s, he had also established a presence in Bolivia.…
▶ 32:11
of the final stages to the Allende government was basically one bomb attack per hour in the final week every day. At least 24 bomb attacks every day for a week. No doubt the PL had a part in this campaign. Michael Vernon Townley, the DINA c…
▶ 32:42
De La Chez and the Dignity Colony had begun to collaborate with the PL as early as 1971. Townley initially aided the PL with the March of Empty Pots. Later, he was tasked with far more ambitious projects. In 1972, Townley had helped the PL …
▶ 33:11
He also mobilized youth gangs into neighborhood, quote unquote, defense units. Again, a play on words. They attacked Allende supporters. They had not a fucking thing to do with defense. Townley was forced into exile in the United States in …
▶ 33:41
and then using people in the CIA to smuggle them back into Chile. This, in light of all of the bombings in Chile in the run-up to the coup, was likely being supplied by Townley from the U.S., specifically from Miami. And keep in mind, Miami…
▶ 34:12
the Cuban exiles to attack Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, and a lot of that was being shipped out of ports in Miami, some of which was being shipped out of New Orleans as well, by the way. By all accounts, the efforts of Townley and the PL was…
▶ 36:10
Using that equipment at the Dignity Colony would communicate to their counterparts in the other countries that they were there and they would assassinate them. That's basically what they did to the one guy that was in Italy. It's what they …
▶ 44:15
in bringing the strategy of tension, not just to Chile, but all of Latin America. And we know that's true because he was basically just the trainer. And so it wouldn't have been him that brought the strategy of tension. He was a worker bee …
▶ 51:03
Another possible transference comes in the form of a gentra press. In the foreword to Hendrick Kruger's classic, The Great Heroin Coup, which I have and I have read, Peter Dale Scott alleges that a gentra press, along with the Townsleys, wo…
▶ 1:02:20
As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…
▶ 1:03:23
A Cuban exile terrorist group allied with MNC took credit for the shooting in a communique. Americans claimed that the attack was arranged through either Michael Townley or his wife, Mariana Calajas, working for two Chileans who were respon…
▶ 1:04:27
Agenter Press Italian correspondent Stefano Dallasche, both Agenter Press and the Townsleys had collaborated in the 1973 Chilean coup group that was paid for by the CIA, while Dallasche and his friend, the Italian fascist Prince Valero Borg…
▶ 1:13:27
After pressure from LaDier's U.S. associates and journalist, LaDier's principal assassin, Michael Townley, received a 10-year sentence. And then he was transferred into the Witness Protection Program. What? Yes. Yeah. For some reason, the C…
▶ 1:14:05
for the Dinas' innocence, knowing full well that they were guilty. Those who ordered Townley's crime have not even been indicted. On the contrary, a related case against another Cuban exile for receiving heavy caliber arms, reportedly in pa…