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	Charles Horman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Horman (May 15, 1942 – September 20, 1973), an American journalist, was one of the victims of the coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile on September 11, 1973 which deposed the democratically-elected socialist president, Salvador Allende.
		Horman was born and raised in New York City.
		At the time of the military uprising, Horman was in the resort town of Viña del Mar, near the port of Valparaíso, which was a key base for both the Chilean coup plotters and US military and intelligence personnel who were supporting them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Horman (709 words)

	tes-history
		Charles Horman, young American journalist, was one of the men targeted by the new Chilean government.
		Charles was condemned and subsequently executed, as the new men in power believed the writing he did for the leftist paper FIN to be indicative of his political viewpoints.
		Charles Horman had the misfortune of stumbling across some valuable information that led him to believe that the military coup that had overthrown Chile’s democratically elected government was aided by the United States.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/tes/tes-history.htm (2598 words)

	Chile U.S. in Chile
		The revelation in the Horman case is particularly instructive because the people close to Charles Horman, like his father, Ed, have been saying something similar for 25 years.
		Thomas Hauser's The Execution of Charles Horman, on which the film Missing is based, describes both Charles's fate and his family's quest to find out the truth about it.
		Charles, in the coastal city of Vina del Mar on the day of the coup, may have heard too much for his own good about U.S. Involvement in the coup from U.S. Navy personnel stationed in nearby Valparaiso, where the coup originated.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Latin_America/USinChile.html (1444 words)

	Similarities Between Nick Berg and Charles Horman (Chile 1973) -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
		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.
		Horman, on the day of the coupe, Sept 11th, 1973 (ironic, isn't it?), had the misfortune to be in Vina del Mar. Vina Del Mar is a resort town, where American advisors to the coupe were residing.
		Horman had the misfortune to talk to a few of them, and was seen taking notes of the conversation.
	www.buzzflash.com /contributors/04/05/con04212.html (550 words)

	Salon Feature \| The end of a nightmare
		Charles Horman, then a 31-year-old freelance journalist, was detained in Santiago, the capital, days after the 1973 coup.
		In 1976, three years after Charles' death, Horman learned that a Chilean intelligence officer had testified in front of the State Department that an American official was present when the order to execute Charles Horman was given.
		Horman flew to London to testify in front of the House of Commons in the hopes that her story would change the magistrate's decision.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/10/19/horman/print.html (1797 words)

	Kissinger a war criminal?
		Horman's widow, Joyce, found herself standing in the rain that day, she had vowed that no one would ever erase the memory of what had been done to her husband.
		Horman, the brilliant son of a New York industrial designer, and Joyce, the lively daughter of a Minnesota grocer, had absorbed the questing, skeptical spirit of the Sixties.
		Horman was struggling with an attack of lymphoma and she decided she had to get on with her life.
	www.lptn.net /forums/discuss&op=printpage&num=177 (2568 words)

	The Pinochet coup and the death of Charles Horman
		To the horror of Ed Horman, a business executive from New York, it becomes increasingly clear that State Department and embassy officials are concerned not with the fate of his son, but rather with concealing US complicity in his murder.
		The Hormans subsequently filed suit for wrongful death, but it was eventually dismissed because the CIA refused to release the relevant files.
		The case of Charles Horman is one of the important political, and human, questions surrounding the 1973 coup that have been pushed into the background over the past quarter century.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/horm-o23.shtml (630 words)

	Flipside - 02/25/00 - PINOCHET HAD CIA GO-AHEAD TO KILL TWO AMERICANS, DOCUMENTS SHOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Horman had spotted US warships off the Chilean coast at Valparaiso shortly after the coup and had believed this showed signs of American connivance.
		Horman was given a lift back to Santiago by a US military captain two days before he disappeared.
		Horman's widow, Joyce, is now pressing the government for a fuller investigation into the links between the US government and Gen Pinochet.
	venus.uwindsor.ca /flipside/vol3/feb00/00fe25b.htm (454 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ News Article
		U.S. citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi were not much older than the average Oberlin student when they were executed by the Chilean military as their own government stood by.
		Horman's body was eventually found buried in the wall of the national cemetery in an unmarked grave.
		Joyce Horman, Horman's widow, has asked the current Chilean government, which once again is trying a Socialist experiment, to release any information in their files regarding his death.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/2000.02.18/news/chile.html (841 words)

	American war criminal's still evade justice.
		Thirty years after the death of Charles Horman inspired a bestseller and an Oscar-winning movie, his widow still pursues those she believes are really to blame -- including the former U.S. secretary of state.
		Horman believes that he and other U.S. officials were deeply involved in the events that cost her husband his life.
		Horman hopes to track down that man. 'I want to find out exactly what happened to Charlie: who picked him up, why they picked him up, who questioned him, how they came to decide he had to disappear.' Those questions lead her straight to Mr.
	www.middleeast.org /comments/1/2988.shtml (1434 words)

	yaledailynews.com - Woman describes search for justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Five years later, Charles was murdered by the Chilean military in the wake of the American-backed 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
		Horman has spent the last 28 years trying to get information from the U.S. government about the American role in Chile at the time of her husband's murder.
		Horman said she was struck by O'Leary's genuine compassion and concern.
	www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=16818 (903 words)

	Charles I on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Charles Brockden Brown, revised and expanded.(Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic)(Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American...
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		Joyce Horman, center, climbs the stairs to the Chilean Supreme Court with her lawyers, Sergio Corvalan, left, and Fabiola Letelier, right, to request that a special judge is assigned to investigate th
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Charles1E1ng.asp (592 words)

	Charles Horman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Horman's case was made famous by (Click link for more info and facts about Costa-Gavras) Costa-Gavras's 1982 film (Click link for more info and facts about Missing) Missing.
		Horman was born and raised in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City.
		He graduated from (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University in 1964 and worked for a number of years in the US media.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_horman.htm (597 words)

	tes-issue
		The Charles Horman depicted in the film was described as being nosy—poking around in the affairs of others, and uncovering extremely confidential information, the validity of which the United States government vehemently denied.
		It is responsible for the murder of Charles Horman.
		Charles Horman’s story is only well known because his family took a stand and would not tolerate excuses and lies.
	www.lehigh.edu /~ineng/tes/tes-issue.htm (3646 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Missing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Charles Horman was murdered by those responsible for the coup.
		Charles and his wife Beth, movingly portrayed by Sissy Spacek, were living in Chile, as were many foreigners at that time, to learn about the new socialist coalition government that had come together under Allende.
		Horman, after witnessing US government military and CIA officials in Valparaiso, Chile, was driven back to Santiago by an American stranger, during the first hours of the coup.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00049QJ9I (1469 words)

	Rosetta Books - Missing by Thomas Hauser - eBook available for download
		Charles Horman was an American, a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who had traveled to Chile in the early 1970s to explore a country undergoing significant changes under its Marxist president, Salvatore Allende.
		Charles Horman was one of these people, dragged from his home as the American embassy refused him help.
		The same embassy officials knew that Charles Horman was dead, even as they were "helping" his father, and when Ed Horman learned of this duplicity he turned his anger on his own countrymen.
	www.rosettabooks.com /pages/title_22.html (614 words)

	CNN - Chatpage - World News
		Joyce Horman on the death of Charles Horman in Chile
		Joyce Horman: We are in the process of digging for the details, and we believe that the hierarchy of command that was present in the stadium reported directly to Augusto Pinochet.
		Joyce Horman: I believe that this set of players -- in other words, the Lagos administration in Chile and the Clinton administration in the United States -- along with the fact that Pinochet was held under arrest for over a year, is vital.
	www.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/6/19/horman (1598 words)

	Chile: New Information of Deaths of Horman and Teruggi
		The murders of Horman and Teruggi were later dramatized in the 1982 film Missing.
		Horman was picked up in a routine sweep, the informant suggests, and was found in possession of "extremist" materials.
		Embassy officials note that his story "corresponds with what we know about the case and the [Chilean government] attempt to cover up their involvement," suggesting that the informant is probably telling the truth.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB33 (499 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Missing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Charles Horman (John Shea) is a freelance journalist and filmmaker living with his wife Beth (Sissy Spacek) in a South American country (some names and places of the real-life incidents have been changed "to protect the innocent and also to protect the film").
		While Charles is out of the city showing a friend (Melanie Mayron) a seaside resort, a military coup occurs in the capital.
		Beth, a political liberal, is convinced that the American officials at the Embassy are lying when they tell her the military regime does not have Charles.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_3809.html (579 words)

	Still "Missing": Truth About Chile -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
		Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, who supported the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, were detained and murdered in September 1973 in the days following Gen. Augusto Pinochet's bloody military coup backed by the U.S. government.
		National Security Archive senior analyst Kornbluh, who has led the campaign for the release of documents on the U.S. role in Chile, said today: "The Horman case is at the core of the hidden history of U.S. involvement in Pinochet's coup and the repression that followed.
		The widow of Charles Horman, who has worked to uncover the facts about his murder for 26 years, said today: "I want to know who gave the order -- and why.
	www.accuracy.org /newsrelease.php?articleId=838&pf=yes (495 words)

	Still Looking for Justice : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Horman was arrested in Chile six days after the CIA backed coup and went missing until his battered and bullet-riddled body was found in a morgue a month later.
		Horman’s widow, Joyce Horman, filed a lawsuit against Pinochet in December of 2000, accusing the former general of kidnapping, murder, illegal burial and illegal exhumation.
		Once Horman's body was located at the Santiago General Cemetery, and his death confirmed, it took the U.S. government more than one year to repatriate the remains.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=127404 (940 words)

	Washington and the Pinochet coup in Chile Declassified documents confirm US role in 1973 death of Charles Horman
		Directed by Constantino Costa Gavras, the film dramatized the struggle of Charles Horman's family to uncover the truth about his murder and the collaboration of US officials with the Chilean military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in carrying it out.
		Charles Horman was one of the victims of the Pinochet coup.
		Horman spent the day of the military uprising and several days thereafter in the resort town of Viña del Mar, near the port of Valparaiso, which was a key base for both the Chilean coup plotters and US military and intelligence personnel who were supporting them.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/horm-o26.shtml (1278 words)

	CCR
		Six days after the bloody coup that overthrew the Allende government in Chile in 1973, Charles Horman, a 31-year-old American writer and filmmaker, was arrested by the Chilean militia under circumstances that suggest that the junta may have feared that he knew of CIA involvement in the coup.
		The story of the murder of Charles Horman was the subject of the film "Missing." Despite numerous legal obstacles, CCR helped uncover information concerning the activities of the Chilean junta and U.S. Embassy in this affair.
		Ultimately, however, the Hormans had to voluntarily dismiss their lawsuit, due to the inability to depose key witnesses and to obtain evidence classified as "secret." This legal action may still be reinstated when new disclosures come to light.
	www.ccr-ny.org /v2/about/history06.asp (763 words)

	Missing--But Not Forgotten
		In 1972, in a letter to his parents in New York, Charles Horman described an investigation he had conducted into the murder of the head of the Chilean army, Rene Schneider.
		Horman concluded, "An interesting thing is the enormous number of people who knew about it ahead of time, including [former President Eduardo] Frei, his Ministers, the CIA, the American Ambassador, and several senators.
		Horman was an occasional Nation contributor, penning three articles for the magazine in the late 1960s.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20020520/greenslade20020510 (1430 words)

	U.S. Intelligence Fingered Charles Horman
		[ Charles Horman was a 30-year-old American free-lance journalist in Chile during the 1973 coup.
		Charles Horman, on the other hand, is still dead.
		In the Hill, academic community, the press, and the Horman family the intimations are of negligence on our part, or worse, complicity in Horman's death.
	www.namebase.org /foia/ch04.html (907 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Chile coup haunts wife of U.S. reporter 30 years on
		Her story of her journalist husband, Charles Horman, was turned into the haunting 1982 Costa-Gavras film "Missing" with Jack Lemmon.
		Charles Horman and a friend were in Vina del Mar, a Chilean resort, when the shooting began.
		The Hormans – Joyce and her father-in-law Edmond, who died in 1993 – filed a wrongful death civil suit against Kissinger and other U.S. officials on the basis of Gonzalez' 1976 remarks.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040115-0756-chile-missing.html (799 words)

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