The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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The Pinochet File reveals a record of complicity with atrocity by the U.S. government. The documents, first declassified for the original edition of the book, formed the heart of the campaign to hold Gen. Pinochet accountable for murder, torture and terrorism. The New York Times wrote of the original 2003 edition, 'Thanks to Peter Kornbluh, we have the first complete, almost day-to-day and fully documented record of this sordid chapter in Cold War American History.' With this 40th anniversary edition, the record is even more complete and up-to-date.

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"Weaves together thirty years of declassified documents with a gripping narrative."
The New Yorker

"The longawaited book of rec-ord on the U.S. intervention in Chile A crisp, compelling narrative, almost a political thriller."
Los Angeles Times

"A remarkable reconstruction of the secret foreign policy that transformed Chile into a dictatorship."
Newsweek

"The smoking guns are all here."
Samantha Power, author of the Pulitzer prizewinning A Problem from Hell

Author Bio

Peter Kornbluh directs the Chile Documentation Project and the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He is a co-author of The Iran-Contra Scandal (The New Press) and the editor of The Bay of Pigs Declassified (The New Press) and The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. He lives in Maryland.