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.

"Weaves together thirty years of declassified documents with a gripping narrative."—The New Yorker"The long-awaited book of rec­ord 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 prize-winning A Problem from Hell