BUZZFLASH: Between Nick Berg and Charles Horman (Chile 1973)

[Say_What]

Interesting, I've been saying the same thing here on DU for the past two days... at quick glance I caught something that is inaccurate, Horman's body was NOT dumped on the side of a road--it turned up about a month after he was executed in a Chilean morgue.

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I couldn't help but be reminded today, while hearing the U.S. Gov't distance
themselves from the unfortunate beheading victim Nicholas Berg; of the case
featured in the 1982 Costa Gravis movie, "Missing".

As you may recall, the movie is about the murder, and search for information
regarding, American freelance writer Charles Horman. Horman went missing
in Santiago Chile shortly after the U.S. sponsored coupe de tat led by Pinochet
that began on, of all dates, September 11th, 1973.

As the U.S. government helped to obscure the ultimate fate of the missing
American, it came to light that police in Chile arrested Horman, interrogated,
murdered, then Dumped on the side of a road his body.

Justifications given by the Chileans, and our own State Dept. Representatives,
were that Charles Horman shouldn't have been where he was, when the coupe
was orchestrated. Further, he ran into many American's who were helping to
choreograph the coupe, and was seen taking notes on the conversations. In
short, Charles Horman was asking to be murdered.

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04212.html

[Parche]

1. Fishy

I have a hunch that Berg stumbled on to something he was not
supposed to see.
CIA is involved

[Say_What]

3. CIA was involved with Horman's death as well. Declassified docs

the GWU's website are interesting to read.

I posted this article before I reading it all the way through--mistake--there are several inaccuracies. Horman's body wasn't dumped by the road--he wasn't killed by police, but by the Chilean military. The other thing the author fails to mention is Frank Teruggi who was executed along with Horman. More FACTS at the GWU website.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/#docs

Also an article from Common Dreams that gives a much more thorough and accurate account of what happened to Horman and Teruggi. It contains a lot of information from Horman's widow, Joyce.

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...Ms. Horman and her lawyers tried again to get the U.S. Government to release classified documents relating to her
husband's disappearance.

Finally, in 2000, it gave them the full results of two internal reviews of the killing. Neither found any direct U.S. link,
but one did uncover "circumstantial evidence" that the Central Intelligence Agency "may have played an unfortunate
part in Horman's death."

It went on to say that "the government of Chile might have believed this American could be killed without negative
fallout from the U.S. Government"

The second review said it was hard to believe that the Chilean military would have killed Mr. Horman unless it had
some kind of signal from Washington.

Although tantalizing, the disclosures were not enough to reopen the wrongful-death case. So Ms. Horman did some
sleuthing on her own. Supported by money from the Ford Foundation, she traveled to France, Switzerland, Sweden,
Chile and different parts of the United States to search for people who might have some idea of how and why her
husband was killed.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0611-03.htm

[girl gone mad]

2. This also reminds me..

of the young man killed by Contras in Nicaragua in the early 80s. I hope someone can think of his name.

He was working on a hydroelectric plant project, and he also performed as a street clown for children. There was some indication of CIA involvement because they had been asking many questions about him just before he was killed. IIRC, his family sued the government posthumously for their support of the Contras.

I was much too young at the time to remember any details, I've only read pieces of the story over the years.