nn Cn 5 RESULTS OF INTERVIEW WITH INDICTED LETELIER f' fan intSSIH %n gzf-Jus US Assistant Attorney FBI SPecial Agent now Chilean that convinced Army Capt Fernandez is not a murderer or party to any conspiracy to murder USG Team Kozakp pre concluded after 10 hours non-stop interrogation that Fernandez has been truthful in asserting that he did not know of murder conspiracy when he entered the US on false documents to survey Letelier's movements immediately before the Sept 1976 murder They have also asserts no involvement in other crimes and is willing to take a polygraph on all counts PP' vPIt Seek oP I teItw ' g p - fP 'l Therefore 20-yr exprpszrre determined by Asst Attorney General Trott and US Attorney DiGenova under assumption of greater involvement by Fernandez in actual conspiracy is not US Assistant Attorney on team estimates that applicable Fernandez could be found guilty only of relatively minor charges of entering US on false documents and making false statements Fernandez knowledge of the crime itself then is limited His nevertheless have helped substantiate Hichael Townley's testimony He also has first-hand knowledge about the cover-up after the crime and of Pinochet's personal role in directing the cover-up Fernandez' statements Fernandez' Pinochet account ' of direct personal conversations with t Pinochet was directing the cover-up provide no irrefutable smoking gun that would to ordering the crime itself Only link is his second-hand account that DINA General Contreras also under told the Chilean military judge grand jury indictment investigating the case something to the effect that Contreras received orders from Pinochet to arrange the assassination His statements tie Pinochet prosecutorial perspective information provided by Fernandez of limited value helps to clear up record of major unresolved case but will not in itself bring the really guilty From parties closer to justice Foreign policy benefits are substantial 1 Demonstrates detergigation of US anti-terrorist policy do not forget message for those considering sponsoring terrorist acts in US Pinochet without destablizing country by on one of regime's most sordid unlikely to inspire Army to come to his defense Puts pressure focussing episodes we on attention P n' e pP n n l Pfolcct 4S199900030 ls Department Release of State Bxc se Deny In Pnn In Pnll czempt on s K—