Peter Kornbluh

Who is Peter Kornbluh?

Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive'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, 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. Kenneth Maxwell wrote a review in November/December 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs, creating a controversy about Henry Kissinger's involvement in Operation Condor. He won a 1990 James Aronson Award honorable mention for writing in The New Yorker.

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 successful voiceover artist and broadcast television producer.