Davis gave information to Chilean officials about journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi that led to their arrest and execution just days after the 1. Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. Pedro Espinoza with the murders, and Rafael Gonzalez, a former civilian counterintelligence agent, as an accomplice in Horman's murder. The two Chileans and Davis had been indicted in 2. Davis commanded the U. S. Military Mission in Chile at the time of the Sept. American- backed coup that ousted the democratically elected government of leftist President Salvador Allende. Davis was investigating Americans in Chile as part of a series of covert intelligence operations run out of the U. S. Embassy targeting those considered to be subversives or radicals, according to lawyer Sergio Corvalan, who represents Horman's widow. Courts in Chile had long sought Davis, believing he was living in Florida. Chile's Supreme Court had approved an extradition request so he could face trial. But Davis was secretly living in Chile, and he died in a Santiago nursing home last year. Horman, 3. 1, a freelance journalist and filmmaker, was arrested Sept. Santiago's main soccer stadium, which had been turned into a detention camp. A national truth commission formed after the Pinochet dictatorship ended said Horman was executed the next day while in the custody of Chilean state security agents. The commission said Teruggi, a 2. Sept. 2. 2. The search for Horman by his wife and father was the topic of the 1. The film won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay and was also nominated for best picture, actor and actress. The film suggested U. In a weirdly perplexing turn, the Soviet Union believed murder was a Western byproduct. The victims were students from Chile working in the. We don't have that kind of. Baker is being held in the Walton County Jail on two open counts of murder. Salvador Allende; 30th President of Chile. Calculation in kind; Collective ownership. President Salvador Allende's farewell speech, 11 September 1973. S. State Department officials. The case remained practically ignored in Chile until 2. Horman's widow, Joyce, came and filed a lawsuit against Pinochet. At the same time, I remain outraged that, through death and delay, a key indicted U.
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