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John Dinges

Washington, D.C., United States

Journalist and Contributor at Freelance

Journalist, author, writes on Latin America. Author Chile in Their Hearts (2025), Amigo de Chile (condecoración O’Higgins) Washington Post, NPR, Columbia U.

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  • 2 weeks ago | spytalk.co | John Dinges

    Editor’s Note: In 1982, a feature film based on events following a military coup in Chile debuted to critical acclaim and went on to dominate the Academy Awards. Missing, directed by Kostantinos Costa-Gavras, implicated the U.S. government in the disappearance and death of Horman, portrayed as a somewhat apolitical young American living in Chile during the government of Salvador Allende, the Chilean president overthrown in the U.S.-backed 1973 coup.

  • 3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Richard Feinberg |John Dinges

    Dinges has written widely on Washington’s complicity in the murderous activities of South American military juntas in the 1970s. In Chile, immediately following the ruthless 1973 coup, the military executed two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi. The 1982 film Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras, brought global attention to the case and implied U.S. involvement in Horman’s demise.

  • 1 month ago | ciperchile.cl | John Dinges

    El siguiente texto es la introducción del nuevo libro del periodista John Dinges, quien investigó la muerte de los estadounidenses Charles Horman, periodista independiente, y Frank Teruggi, estudiante, en los primeros días del golpe de Estado de 1973. Este capítulo se titula «El encanto de Chile» y grafica lo que significó para muchos ciudadanos del mundo el triunfo de Salvador Allende. Tras investigar, Dinges llegó a conclusiones que pueden sorprender al lector.

  • Sep 14, 2024 | spytalk.co | John Dinges

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  • Sep 14, 2024 | spytalk.co | John Dinges

    Author John Marks discovered his vocation as a peacemaker while writing his 1979 bestseller, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, an exposé of the spy agency’s experiments with psychedelic drugs. He’s been on a very long personal journey since then. Marks was a former State Department foreign service officer who became disillusioned over the Vietnam War and later wrote blockbuster exposés of the CIA.

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John Dinges
John Dinges @jdinges
14 Apr 25

https://t.co/K95QMOseTt Harvard to Trump: Drop Dead. The first university to say the morally obvious: we will not comply.

John Dinges
John Dinges @jdinges
8 Apr 25

Interview on my investigative methods used in my book Chile in Their Hearts. The problems when you contradict the “official story”. https://t.co/co2OnlVadn

John Dinges
John Dinges @jdinges
17 Mar 25

Dictatorships pass. It requires courageous journalism, human rights documentation and the guts to resist. Sheila Coronel shows how it happened in the Philippines. “Duterte: On the arrest of an autocrat.” https://t.co/sBzfr1lE3g via @cjr