Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive

National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is a 501 non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located in the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1985 by Scott Armstrong, it archives and publishes declassified U.S. government files concerning selected topics of US...

'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

Freedom of Information Act (United States)

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, relating to the history of the U.S. Government's support for the Pinochet dictatorship. He is the author of several books, most recently The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New Press). Kenneth Maxwell

Kenneth Maxwell

Kenneth Robert Maxwell is a British historian who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for fifteen years he headed its Latin America Studies Program...

 wrote a review in November/December 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

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, creating a controversy about Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...

's involvement in Operation Condor

Operation Condor

Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America...

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He won a 1990 James Aronson Award

James Aronson Award

James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism has been awarded by Hunter College since 1990.It is to honor the Hunter College professor of journalism and editor James Aronson....

 honorable mention for writing in The New Yorker.

His only son, Gabriel Kornbluh, is a successful voiceover artist and broadcast television producer.

External links

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