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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
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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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's involvement in
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. Kornbluh won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing on Central America in ''
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Early life and career

Kornbluh grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 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:
The New Press The New Press is an independent non-profit public-interest book publisher established in 1992 by André SchiffrinMichael T. Klare). '' Low Intensity Warfare: How the USA Fights Wars Without Declaring Them'' (Methuen Publishing Ltd ; ) *1993 (with Malcolm Byrne). ''The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History'' (The New Press, 1993 ) *1998 (with James G. Blight). ''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. ; ) *2003. '' The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'' (The New Press).


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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