NP Kissenger

[Doug Millison]

Welcome to the EJC Media News Digest of 06 July 2001
[...]
Chilean judge seeks to question Kissinger

Chilean judge Juan Guzman is seeking to question former US Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger over the fate of a US journalist who disappeared
in Chile during the 1973 coup. 

The story of the journalist, Charles Horman, was made famous by the 1982
Hollywood film ''Missing'', which starred Jack Lemmon as his father. 

Mr Horman was last seen on 17 September 1973 in Chile's National
Stadium, which was used to hold alleged opponents of the new military
regime led by General Augusto Pinochet. 

Mr Horman was investigating possible links between the CIA and Mr
Pinochet's coup at the time of his disappearance. 

Judge Guzman on Wednesday sent a list of written questions he wishes to
put to Mr Kissinger via Chile's Surpeme Court, which must decide whether
to forward them to the US State Department. 

Earlier this year Mr Kissinger, who was head of the US State Department
from 1973 to 1977, refused to answer questions from a French court over
disappearances of French citizens after the Pinochet coup.  

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/americas/newsid_1423000/1423783.stm
- BBC