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selected friends in the news media the story that Letelier was killed by his
own supporters who wanted to make him [Letelier] a martyr.
According to Lane, "It was William F. Buckley, Jr. who took that story
from Bush and ran with it. The media followed Buckley's lead, but the story
turned out not to be true." (In Chapter 20, as we shall see, it was George
Bush who, in many ways, had very close connections to a number of the
key players in the strange netherworld of international intelligence as it is
linked to the JFK assassination.)
As Lane points out: "The Novos were both convicted of the Letelier
murder and sentenced to prison. These are the brothers that Marita Lorenz
testified were in the two-car caravan of killers traveling from Miami to
Dallas for the purpose of assassinating President Kennedy." 317
MULTIPLE MOSSAD CONNECTIONS
Evidence now available from former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky
suggests that Israel's Mossad, in fact, was indirectly connected with the
Letelier assassination for which the Novo brothers (implicated in the JFK
assassination) were later convicted.
(It was Ostrovsky, coincidentally enough, whom we learned in Chapter 2,
had exposed a Mossad plot to assassinate the former director of the CIA,
George Bush, after Bush, serving as U.S. President, ran afoul of Israel.)
According to Ostrovsky, commenting on the Letelier murder: "Nobody
pointed the finger at the Mossad. And while the Mossad had no direct
involvement in the hit ordered by Chilean DINA [secret police] Chief
Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, it had played a significant indirect role in the
execution through a secret deal with Contreras to buy a French-made Exocet
surface-to-surface naval missile from Chile.
"The death squad didn't use Mossad personnel in killing Letelier but
they certainly used Mossad know-how, taught to them as part of the deal
Contreras made to supply the missile." 318 It was the Novo brothers,
however, who took the fall and served time in prison. No Mossad agents,
however, were charged with the crime.
It is interesting to note, nonetheless, that Michael Townley himself had very
interesting further connections with Israel. His wife, Ines, although a Chilean
Christian, had spent time on an Israeli Kibbutz with her first husband,
and maintained a long-standing "devotion to the cause of Israel." 319
Part of Townley's deal with the federal prosecutors, in the case of the
Novo brothers, involved a plea bargain in which his wife received immunity
from prosecution, although she had been implicated in various terrorist
enterprises alongside her husband. 320
However, Townley's other connection with Israel is far more
significant, particularly in the context of our discussion of his connection
with the Cuban Americans who have been implicated in the JFK
assassination. During Townley's long career as an international adventurer, he
served—apparently during the period from 1961-1966—as a mutual funds
salesman for financier Bernard Cornfeld's Investors' Overseas Service (JOS)