Chilean Prosecutor Charges Ex-U.S. Officer in 1973 Murder of American Journalists
Submitted on December 6, 2011
By Bill Van Auken - 5 December 2011
A judge in Chile last week issued an indictment against a retired US Navy officer in connection with the arrest, torture and murder of two American journalists...in the wake of the CIA-backed military coup...that toppled the government of President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973...Judge Jorge Zepeda has charged Capt. Ray Davis (retired) with providing the Chilean secret police with intelligence that led to the abduction and murder of [Charles] Horman and [Frank] Terrugi and with failing to take any action to stop the killings.
