Robertson and addressed to Harry Schlaudeman, a high-ranking official in the department's Latin American division — the August document described the Horman case as " bothersome ," given reports in the press and Congressional investigations charging that the affair involved " negligence on our part, or worse, complicity in Horman's death.

From 1972 to 1974, he was a U. S. political observer in Santiago, Chile ( involved in the case of Charles Horman ), and held the same position in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1974 to 1976.

The film is based on a book that was first published under the title The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice ( 1978 ) by Thomas Hauser ( later republished under the title Missing in 1982 ).

Charles Horman ( May 15, 1942 – September 19, 1973 ) was an American journalist and was one of the victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d ' état led by General Augusto Pinochet, that deposed the socialist president, Salvador Allende, after bombing the Chilean presidential palace on September 11, 1973.

Horman was born and raised in New York City, where he attended the Allen-Stevenson School, from which he graduated in 1957.

On September 17, 1973, six days after the military takeover, Horman was seized by Chilean soldiers and taken to the National Stadium in Santiago, which had been turned by the military into an ad hoc prison camp, where prisoners were interrogated, tortured and executed.

At the time of the military coup, Horman was in the resort town of Viña del Mar, near the port of Valparaíso, which was a key base for the American and Chilean coup plotters.

US officials speculated at the time that Horman was a victim of " Chilean paranoia ," but did nothing to intervene.

Horman himself was portrayed by John Shea.

The film was based on a book first published under the title " The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice " ( 1978 ) by Thomas Hauser ( it was later republished under the title Missing in 1982 ).

At worst, US intelligence was aware the GOC saw Horman in a rather serious light and US officials did nothing to discourage the logical outcome of GOC paranoia.

Among five Americans who gave evidence was Joyce Horman, his widow who had filed a criminal suit against Augusto Pinochet the previous December.

The investigation included a four-hour re-enactment of the scene in the National Stadium where Horman was killed, one of 10, 000 who suffered there.

" At the time of his death, Horman was investigating the murder of René Schneider, the Commander-in-Chief in the Chilean army whose support for Allende and the constitution was seen as an obstacle to the coup.

Based on a true story, Shea played Charles Horman, an American journalist who was kidnapped, tortured, and executed by the Pinochet regime during the military coup that over threw the Allende government in Chile.

WikidPad was invented by Jason Horman who released it under his own open source license, similar to BSD license, in June 2005.

Both the film and Thomas Hauser's book The Execution of Charles Horman were removed from the United States market following a lawsuit filed against Costa-Gavras and Universal Pictures's parent company MCA by former Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and two others for defamation of character.

In the film Horman is depicted as having spoken with several U. S. operatives that assisted the Chilean military government.

The 1982 film Missing by Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras depicts the September 11, 1973 coup d ' état and execution of American journalists Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi at the Estadio Nacional de Chile.

Missing ( 1982 ) concerns an American journalist, Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile and backed by the United States in 1973.

" The same memo had been released to the Horman family more than twenty years earlier, but the above-mentioned paragraphs had been blacked out by the State Department.

Following the military coup of 1973, he fled the country, fearing execution as a participant in the Allende government ; some of his American friends were executed by the military, including journalist Charles Horman.

It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende.

It is unlikely that Horman would have been killed without a green light from the CIA, according to papers released in 1999 under the Freedom of Information Act.

The three State Department officials said they had evidence that " The GOC of Chile sought Horman and felt threatened enough to order his immediate execution.

The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice.

The military imprisoned 40, 000 political enemies in the National Stadium of Chile ; among the tortured and killed desaparecidos ( disappeared ) were the U. S. citizens Charles Horman, and Frank Teruggi.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` The case was that Bang-Jensen came up to Shann claiming he had found further errors in the report.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

In such a case, however, we would encourage the recipient country to get on with its programing task, supply it with substantial technical assistance in performing that task, and make it plain that an expansion or even a continuation of our assistance to the country's development was conditional upon programing progress being made.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Then it was that District Attorney Welch entered the case.