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Missing af Thomas Hauser
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Missing (udgave 1982)

af Thomas Hauser

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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated book that served as the basis for the Oscar-winning movie starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.   Charles Horman was an American freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who had traveled to Chile in the early 1970s to explore a country that was undergoing significant changes under the then-Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the course of his research, Horman seems to have uncovered information about CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Allende. In fact, the coup did take place with General Augusto Pinochet taking over as dictator then ordering the mass arrest of thousands of dissidents and opponents. Horman was one of thousands of people who was dragged from his home and never again seen alive. The American Embassy refused any assistance.   It seems that Horman was murdered by Chilean security police, although this was never publicly acknowledged. Horman's father, Ed, a patriotic American businessman, traveled to Santiago where officials of the American Embassy, led by the ambassador himself, offered to help him search for his son--but these same embassy officials knew that Horman was dead.   Published in 1978, five years after Pinochet took over Chile, Missing is a harrowing tale. It is an explosive story that touches on political matters that are still relevant today. Hauser calmly sets about laying the groundwork for his story, examining both the facts as well as the more mysterious elements of this true story.… (mere)
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Excellent piece of journalism documenting the disappearance of American Charles Horman in Chile in 1973, just after the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende’s government. The author lays out the timeline of events, what may have led to his arrest, and the ways in which US officials’ actions may have contributed to his death. In a parallel narrative, the author follows Horman’s wife and father as they attempt to find out what happened, running into a bureaucratic nightmare. The term “non-fiction that reads like fiction” applies to this book.

Horman disappeared at the beginning of Augusto Pinochet’s Reign of Terror. This book was published in 1977. Subsequent events, investigations, and releases of previously confidential information support Hauser’s conclusions. As I read, I found myself hoping for a different outcome.

I found this book at a local used bookstore. A news article was folded within its pages, about Joyce Horman and her search for truth, published in February 2000. I then researched the latest status on the internet, so I was able to trace this history of this tragic event over four-plus decades. ( )
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Walk light,don't fight,tiptoe through the barbed wire
days.
All the world's a place
to hide in.
I caan't see the end
from where I am;
but when I get there
I will know.
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For my mother and father,
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Charles Edmund Horman was born in New York City on 15 May 1942.
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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated book that served as the basis for the Oscar-winning movie starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.   Charles Horman was an American freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who had traveled to Chile in the early 1970s to explore a country that was undergoing significant changes under the then-Marxist President Salvador Allende. In the course of his research, Horman seems to have uncovered information about CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Allende. In fact, the coup did take place with General Augusto Pinochet taking over as dictator then ordering the mass arrest of thousands of dissidents and opponents. Horman was one of thousands of people who was dragged from his home and never again seen alive. The American Embassy refused any assistance.   It seems that Horman was murdered by Chilean security police, although this was never publicly acknowledged. Horman's father, Ed, a patriotic American businessman, traveled to Santiago where officials of the American Embassy, led by the ambassador himself, offered to help him search for his son--but these same embassy officials knew that Horman was dead.   Published in 1978, five years after Pinochet took over Chile, Missing is a harrowing tale. It is an explosive story that touches on political matters that are still relevant today. Hauser calmly sets about laying the groundwork for his story, examining both the facts as well as the more mysterious elements of this true story.

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