Peter Kornbluh

National Security Archive

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Director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington. He is also co-author, with William M. LeoGrande, of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana.

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