Charles Horman (May 15, 1942 - September 20, 1973), an American journalist, was one of the victims of the Chilean coup of 1973 led by General Augusto Pinochet, which deposed the socialist president, Salvador Allende. Horman's case was made famous by Costa-Gavras' 1982 film "Missing." Wikipedia
On October 8, 1999, the U.S. Government released 1100 documents on Chile. Among them is a declassified State Department report on the case of Charles Horman, an American citizen who was killed by the Chilean military in the days following the coup. <me www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991008/
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