SEARCHING FOR BORIS WEISFEILER
A new "Photo Album: Chile Trip, 2007" reveals the Weisfeiler family's continuing search for Boris’ and continuing fight for truth and justice in Chile. An album includes pictures from the family’s second trip to Colonia Dignidad undertaken in a hope to gather new information on Boris’ whereabouts, information that has now been kept secret by Colonia’s residents for over 20 years.
It has been twenty years since my brother, Boris Weisfeiler, vanished while on a hiking trip in Southern Chile.
To learn more about Boris and my efforts to find him take a look at the photo album “Searching for Boris” below.
The album includes pictures of Boris Weisfeiler from 1970’s and early 1980's, pictures from my November 2004
trip to Chile when I visited Colonia Dignidad. Also included are photos taken in 1985 and in 2002 of the location where Boris was last seen.
--Olga Weisfeiler, January 2005
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There are more than 1,100 desaparecidos (disappeared persons) in Chile and one of them is a U.S. citizen - Boris Weisfeiler. A Russian-born mathematics professor at Pennsylvania State University, Weisfeiler vanished while on a hiking trip near the border between Chile and Argentina in the early part of January 1985. After a quick and cursory investigation, Chilean authorities concluded that Weisfeiler had drowned in the Nuble River during his trip.
Declassified U.S. documents tell a different story. According to an informant, Weisfeiler was detained by Augusto Pinochet's soldiers, presumed to be a CIA, or a Russian or a Jewish spy, and taken to the mysterious German settlement Colonia Dignidad. The declassified U.S. documents show that the U.S. Embassy personnel did not do enough to ascertain the fate of Weisfeiler, the only missing U.S. citizen in Chile. As consul Jayne Kobliska stated more than a year after Weisfeiler's disappearance in a memo from April 1986, "the real danger in this case is that we will delay action until it is too late to either save Weisfeiler's life or to determine the true circumstances of his death."
TIMELINE: THE WEISFEILER CASE
“Timeline: The Weisfeiler Case” - a guide to key events, legal and political issues related to the January 1985 disappearance in Chile of a U.S. citizen, Boris Weisfeiler. This timeline draws on declassified U.S. government records, official correspondence, court rulings, and Chilean and U.S. newspaper publications.
