Eyewitness to a Coup
Volk, Steven
"In September, 1973, I was a 26-year-old doctoral student finishing my dissertation research ... my own political interests soon brought me into contact with a small group of progressive, young...
...government and corporations around the world, and to demonstrate solidarity with the Chilean left by calling attention to left and progressive movements in the United States...
...Together, we published a small news magazine called FIN, Fuente Norteamericano de Informaci6n (North American Information Source...
...my own political interests soon brought me into contact with a small group of progressive, young North Americans...
...Of these, two, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, were picked up and killed within a week of the coup-the only two U.S...
...Charlie's case has been made widely known through the 1982 Costa-Gavras film, Missing...
...By September 11, 1973, some eight of us were still in Chile, working on FIN and our other jobs...
...citizens to be killed...
...FIN was designed to inform interested Chileans of the activities of the U.S...
...Frank's case has not been as widely circulated...
...I became involved [in their cases] because I was their friend and colleague...
Vol. 36 • November 2002 • No. 3
