Anonymous Comrade writes: from LA NACION, via The Santiago Times, July 1, 2002:

GUZMAN CALLS FOR ANSWERS FROM KISSINGER

The judge presiding over the investigation into the 1973 coup death of
U.S. journalist Charles Horman, Juan Guzman, gave an ultimatum to Henry
Kissinger to answer his inquiries Friday.

Guzman asked for a writ from the president of the Chilean Supreme Court,
Mario Garrido, which gives Kissinger a fixed period to give evidence or
to face the consequences. Kissinger, who was Secretary of State under
the Nixon administration, has 40 days to answer questions about the
murder. Kissinger was first served with the request for testimony in
July 2001. Guzman has threatened to pass the request to the U.S. Supreme
Court if Kissinger fails to give evidence.
Guzman is investigating the death of Charles Horman, a journalist who
died in the National Stadium along with dissidents selected by the
military regime for removal. His body was found in a Santiago street a
day after his detention. Horman supposedly stumbled on U.S. involvement
in the 1973 coup and his death took place with CIA connivance, according
to his widow, Joyce Horman, who filed the charge.

Her view is supported by CIA documents declassified by the Clinton
Administration in 2000. One State Department memo dated Aug. 25, 1976,
states, "U.S. intelligence may have played an unfortunate part in
Horman's death." Horman's murder was the inspiration of the Costa Gavras
film, Missing, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.

Guzman believes Kissinger could give evidence pertinent to the trial,
despite the former Secretary of State's silence so far.

Kissinger has said he is disposed to answer questions about the Horman
murder, but questioned whether a North American tribunal or a court from
another country has the authority to pursue cases from such a long time
ago.

France and Argentina have also called for Kissinger to give evidence
about Operation Condor, a system of cooperation between Southern Cone
dictatorships to remove leftist dissidents in the 1970s.

Among other things Kissinger must answer whether he spoke to the U.S.

ambassador in Chile in 1973, Nathaniel Davis, about the kidnap and
execution of Horman on October 12 1973. He is also wanted to explain a
written communication with the U.S. embassy in Santiago about the
discovery of Horman's body in the General Cemetery in June 1976.

Kissinger is also alleged to have made phone calls to Pinochet, and the
Ministers of Defense, Vice admiral Patricio Carvajal, and of foreign
affairs, Vice admiral Ismael Huerta, about Horman. Guzman wants to
examine the links between the U.S. State Department and its embassy in
Chile.

Circumstantial evidence implies some U.S. involvement in the coup.

Documents held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and released by
the Clinton administration have revealed that the agency helped the
Chile's military coup with financial and strategic support. Among these
documents are then-CIA Director Richard Helms' notes of a 1970 meeting
with Nixon. In that meeting, Nixon expressed his intention in preventing
Allende from taking power.

If that did not work, the former president urged promoting a military
coup.

Helms wrote that Nixon gave the effort a budget of US$10 million, or
more if necessary, and ordered the CIA chief to "make the economy
scream." Both Helms and Kissinger were sued last year by the family of
former Gen.

Rene Schneider for their role in the general's death. Schneider was Army
commander in chief when Allende won the 1970 election. He was killed by
far-right extremists just before Allende's inauguration, in an attempt
to keep the Socialist president from assuming his post.

Evidence relating to the coup in 1973 itself is more scanty.

Kissinger is also wanted to give evidence in Argentina about the car
bomb which killed former Chilean chief of staff Gen. Carlos Prats and
his wife, Sofia Cuthbert.