Peter Kornbluh


Peter Kornbluh 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. He is the author of several books, most recently . 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.
Kornbluh won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing on Central America in The New Yorker.

Early life and career

Kornbluh grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from Pioneer High School in 1974. He has worked at the National Security Archive since 1986. His only son, Gabriel Kornbluh, is a voiceover artist and broadcast television producer.

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