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U.S. Government Releases Documents on Murders of Americans in Chile

Aired June 30, 2000 - 6:15 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Previously classified documents released by the U.S. government may shed new light on the murders of three Americans in Chile in the 1970s and '80s. But at least one victim's family is not satisfied.

CNN's national security correspondent David Ensor reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More than 800- hundred pages of documents were released from the State Department, the CIA and other agencies. They concern the mysterious deaths of three Americans in Chile in the 1970s and '80s.

Two of the deaths were during the 1973 coup in which the Chilean military overthrew the elected leftist government of Salvador Allende.

Two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, sympathetic to the socialist government, were executed by the Chilean security forces.

Horman's widow, Joyce, has contended for 27 years that she believes the U.S. government may have played an indirect role in the death of her husband. She thanked the State Department for the documents released but criticized the CIA.

JOYCE HORMAN, WIDOW OF CHARLES HORMAN: This is the first time the CIA has let out anything, and it's a paucity, it's a minimal amount of documents with very little information in it and lots of redactions.

So why the redactions, why the resistance? This doesn't make us feel better about the CIA's involvement.

ENSOR: But at the State Department, a spokesman said almost everything is out, including everything of any importance.

RICHARD BOUCHER, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: There is a handful of documents related to this particular situation that are being held back because they deal with questions of sources and methods. But we can assure the families and the readers that those documents don't change in any way the substantive conclusions.

ENSOR: At the CIA, officials stress the agency had no role, direct or indirect, in the deaths of Americans in Chile.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ENSOR: And there are documents among those released that appear to back that up, including a group here that talk about a Chilean security official who walked into the U.S. embassy in 1987 and said that he knew that Charles Horman had been killed even before Chilean officials realized that he was an American. And the official said that U.S. officials knew nothing about it -- Judy.

WOODRUFF: All Right, David Ensor, thank you very much.

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