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...ghost of CHARLES HORMAN continues to haunt the CIA. The American expatriate, killed during the 1973 coup led by Chilean General AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1982 movie Missing. His death and revelations of agency support for Pinochet helped lead to congressional oversight of CIA activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction...
Later this month, Senator DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN of New York will team up with Florida Congressman PORTER GOSS to introduce a bill increasing congressional control over declassification, with particular attention to cases like Horman's. The law will create an independent board to review documents for declassification. The first head of that board, Goss hopes, will be Moynihan...
...Charles Horman '64, an American writer and filmmaker, was arrested and killed under the Pinochet regime...
...Thomas Hauser, The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice, which accused the United States government of complicity in his death. This work inspired the 1982 film Missing, starring Jack Lemmon...
...Missing" is like St. Paul's trip to Damascus, when the former pagan saw the light and was converted to the truth and to Christianity. In this case, ED Horman goes to Santiago and is converted to liberalism because he sees that his government has betrayed him and the American people. This film details a man's Coming to Consciousness, and as such it is pedantic, ideological, onedimensional and utterly boring...