Peter Kornbluh

Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and of the Cuba Documentation Project.

He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the FOIA, relating to the history of the U.S. Government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship.^[1] He is the author of several books, most recently The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New Press). Kenneth Maxwell wrote a review in November/December 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs, creating a controversy about Henry Kissinger's involvement in Operation Condor. He won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing in The New Yorker.

Kornbluh grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from Pioneer High School in 1974.^[2] He has worked at the National Security Archive since 1986.^[3] His only son, Gabriel Kornbluh, is a successful voiceover artist and broadcast television producer.

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Kornbluh, Peter. 1998. Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba. The New Press. New York. ISBN 1-56584-494-7 ISBN 978-1565844940
• Kornbluh, Peter. 1987. Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention (Institute for Policy Studies)
• Kornbluh, Peter. 1989. The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New Press)
• Kornbluh, Peter. (with Michael T. Klare). 1989. Low Intensity Warfare: How the USA Fights Wars Without Declaring Them (Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-413-61590-1; ISBN 978-0-413-61590-9)
• Kornbluh, Peter. (with Malcolm Byrne). 1983. The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (New Press, 1993) ISBN 978-1-56584-047-8
• Kornbluh, Peter. (coordinators, with James G. Blight). 1998. Politics of Illusion : The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined, Lynne Rienner publishers, Boulder, Colorado.

External links

• Biography and articles in The Nation
• Still Hidden: A Full Record Of What the U.S. Did in Chile, The Washington Post, October 24, 1999