foreign policy that transformed Chile into a dictatorship. This material is incorporated into a powerful retelling of the events that Newsweek magazine calls “a remarkable reconstruction of the secret U.S. The Pinochet file : a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability. The Pinochet File is a National Security Archive book written by Peter Kornbluh covering over approximately two decades of declassified documents, from the. The paperback edition includes new information and documents released since the hardcover went to press. Peter Kornbluh spearheaded the effort to declassify some 24000 secret CIA. “Thanks to Peter Kornbluh,” the Los Angeles Times wrote, “we have the first complete, almost day-to-day and fully documented record of this sordid chapter in Cold War American history.” Peter Kornbluh led the campaign for the declassification of some 24,000 secret CIA, White House, NSC, and Defense Department records on Chile.

role in undermining Chilean democracy and supporting the advent of General Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. When it was first published in 2003 on the 30th anniversary of the Chilean coup, Peter Kornbluh’s `Pinochet File’ was hailed on the editorial page of The New York Times – no doubt to the aggravation of Henry Kissinger and all those who would deny the U.S.

Now in an affordable paperback edition, the 608 pages are updated with yet more newly declassified documents. From Chilean secret police records on Operation Condor to the CIA Chile Task Force organizational and strategy documents, to transcripts of Nixon and Kissinger discussing how to “bring Allende down”it’s all here. He is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive, a public-interest documentation. Kornbluh presents them here, with an investigative narrative that puts the documents in their historical context exposing the efforts of Kissinger, the White House, and the CIA to conceal this history and fills in the gaps of one of the most infamous chapters in the history of American foreign policy. Peter Kornbluh author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. Thousands of documents that spelled out US government support of Pinochet have recently been declassified.

The Pinochet File by Peter Kornbluh