# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-townley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:28.919Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-townley"
name: "Michael Townley"
slug: "michael-townley"
description: "Michael Vernon Townley is an American-born former double agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the secret police of Chile during the regime of Augusto Pinochet. In 1978, Townley pleaded guilty to the 1976 murders of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States, and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, Letelier's co-worker at the Institute for Policy Studies. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, serving 62 months. As part of his plea bargain, Townley received immunity from further prosecution; he was not extradited to Argentina to stand trial for the 1974 assassination of Chilean General Carlos Prats and his wife Sofía Cuthbert in Buenos Aires."
tagline: "American murderer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1942-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             0.163265306122449
  historical:           8.930541333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley"
    title: "Michael Townley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Таунли, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2467808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump