Peter Kornbluh

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Peter Kornbluh
Kornbluh outside the Institute for Policy Studies in 2009
Born	1956 (age 64–65) [1] Ann Arbor, Michigan
Employer	National Security Archive

Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is the director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project and Cuba Documentation Project.

He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the Freedom of Information Act, relating to the history of the U.S. government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.^[2] He is the author of several books, most recently The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (The New Press, 2003). Kenneth Maxwell wrote a review in the November/December 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs, creating a controversy about Henry Kissinger's involvement in Operation Condor.^{[citation needed]} Kornbluh won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing on Central America in The New Yorker.^{[citation needed]}

Early life and career[]

Kornbluh grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from Pioneer High School in 1974.^[3] He received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1978. ^[4] He has worked at the National Security Archive since 1986.^[5] His only son, Gabriel Kornbluh, is a voiceover artist and broadcast television producer.

Footnotes[]

Bibliography[]

• 1987. Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention (Institute for Policy Studies)
• 1989. The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New York: The New Press)
• 1989 (with Michael T. Klare). 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)
• 1993 (with Malcolm Byrne). The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (The New Press, 1993 ISBN 978-1-56584-047-8)
• 1998 (with ). Politics of Illusion : The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner publishers)
• 1998. Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press. ISBN 1-56584-494-7; ISBN 978-1565844940)
• 2003. The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (The New Press).

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
• Appearances on C-SPAN