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==Alleged CIA Connections==
Townley’s CIA ties raise questions about Berríos’s involvement. A 1978 CIA declaration by Robert Gambino denied Townley’s agency status post-1971, but Contreras’s 2005 testimony claimed Townley, Berríos, and others received CNI payments (1978–1990), suggesting U.S. complicity. Allegations of Berríos’s role in Olof Palme’s 1986 assassination or Iran-Contra, cited in Panorama and by agents Ibrahim Razin and Richard Brenneke. The CIA’s use of Crypto AG devices to monitor Condor nations, per the 2020 Washington Post report, likely included DINA’s communications.