For anyone who saw the film Missing, or anyone who has kept track of Chilean events recalls vividly the games the U.S. embassy in Santiago, Chile played hiding the truth about a young U.S. journalist, Charles Horman, who contributed to The Nation and a U.S. news photographer, Frank Teruggi (who both were snatched out of the world, disappeared, tortured, and murdered by Pinochet's agents (US puppet coup President, brought to power through a bloody coup to destroy the leftist President Salvador Allende, by Richard M. Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA)) with the father, and wife of Charles Horman, described in this article:
Is Nick Berg Another Charlie Horman?
I’m not usually into conspiracy theories, but if you read the exchanges between me and Seattle in the Comments section of the previous Nick Berg post, you’ll know I think this whole thing smells like yesterday’s herring. Well, I finally put my finger on what was bothering me: Charlie Horman. I’ve seen this run-around before.
Charlie Horman was a free-lance reporter living in Chile at the time of Allende’s murder and the coup that put Pinochet and the Chilean military in charge of the govt. The date was September 11, 1973, 28 years to the day before 9/11. He disappeared on Sept 12. Two years later, after a prolonged investigation and a whole lot of pressure from Charlie’s father, Ed, a successful NY businessman–and Republican contributor to Nixon’s campaign–the bodies of Charlie and his friend, Frank Teruggi, were found riddled with bullets, Frank’s in the Santiago soccer stadium and Charlie’s in the morgue after being dumped unceremoniously in the street. But before that, Charlie had been buried inside a wall in the tunnels under the stadium. Inside.
At first the American Embassy and the new Ambassador to Chile said they’d never heard of Charlie and had no records concerning him. When Horman proved that Charlie had been to see them a few days before the coup looking for help in getting a friend of his out of the country at a tense time, they suddenly found those records.
And that’s the way it went until the ‘discovery’ of Charlie’s body: govt officials at the US Embassy and US military officials would tell Horman stories, and Ed would painstakingly prove that those stories weren’t true. When Ed didn’t fall for the official fairy tales, they attacked Charlie personally: he was an irresponsible hippie; they’d tried to help him but he wouldn’t listen; he was poking his nose into places he shouldn’t have been and it was too bad but they’d done everything they could; they’d offered to get him out of Chile but he had insisted that he wanted to stay to report on the coup; and so on. In one particularly shameful meeting, the American Consul told Ed that they’d found Charlie and that he was still alive. Ed later proved that he had in fact known of Charlie’s death since a few days after it happened.
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