Peter Kornbluh (born 1956) is the director of the

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's Chile Documentation Project and Cuba Documentation Project. He played a large role in the campaign to declassify government documents, via the

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, relating to the history of the U.S. government's support for the

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dictatorship in Chile. He is the author of several books, most recently '' The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'' (

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wrote a review in the November/December 2003 issue of ''

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'', creating a controversy about

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's involvement in

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. Kornbluh won a 1990

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honorable mention for writing on Central America in ''

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Early life and career

Kornbluh grew up in

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, where he graduated from Pioneer High School in 1974. He received a B.A. from

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in 1978. He has worked at the National Security Archive since 1986.National Security Archive staff bios
(accessed October 29, 2013).

Publications

*1987. ''Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention'' (

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) *1989. ''The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'' (New York:

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). ''

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: How the USA Fights Wars Without Declaring Them'' (Methuen Publishing Ltd ; ) *1993 (with

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). ''The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History'' (The New Press, 1993 ) *1998 (with James G. Blight). ''Politics of Illusion :

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Reexamined'' (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner publishers) *1998. ''Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba'' (The New Press. ; ) *2003. '' The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'' (The New Press).

References

External links

Biography and articles
in ''

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''
"Still Hidden: A Full Record Of What the U.S. Did in Chile"
''

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'', October 24, 1999 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kornbluh, Peter Living people Latin Americanists Operation Condor 1956 births Date of birth missing (living people) People from Ann Arbor, Michigan