Editing Michael Townley (section)

==Chemical Weapons and Colonia Dignidad==
Townley was involved in DINA’s chemical weapons program, working with biochemist [[Eugenio Berrios]] and Colonel [[Gerardo Huber]] to produce toxins for assassinations. In a 2005 interrogation by Judge Alejandro Madrid regarding the death of former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva (1982), Townley acknowledged links between DINA, [[Colonia Dignidad]] (a German cult in Chile used as a torture center), and the Laboratorio de Guerra Bacteriológica del Ejército (Army Bacteriological Warfare Laboratory). He claimed the Colonia Dignidad laboratory, a continuation of his Via Naranja de Lo Curro facility, produced toxins, including the one suspected in Frei’s death. Townley also testified in 1992 that Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria, killed in 1976, was tortured at his home with sarin gas, redeveloped by Berríos, linking DINA’s chemical operations to [[Operation Condor]].