Peter Kornbluh
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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
- ^ Chile Documentation Project, dir. by Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive
- ^ Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation, Ann Arbor Public Schools Alumni (accessed 29 October 2013).
- ^ National Security Archive staff bios (accessed 29 October 2013).
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
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