The Center for International Studies presents the Latin American Studies annual lecture featuring Peter Kornbluh on “A New Perspective on Cuba-U.S. Relations” on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. in Baker Center 240.
Peter Kornbluh
Kornbluh is senior analyst with the National Security Archives and director of the Archive’s Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. This event is co-sponsored by War and Peace Studies, the Department of History, and the Contemporary History Institute.
Kornbluh’s talk focuses on his latest book, co-authored with William LeoGrande, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana. Based on declassified documents that range from a phrasebook used to send covert phone messages to memos from Kissinger and other Secretaries of State, the book examines 50 years of open and furtive dialogue and negotiations between Cuba and the United States. According to Kornbluh and LeoGrande, their work offers an important perspective on current debates about U.S.-Cuba relations, as well as lessons for future negotiations as leaders in both countries attempt to create a path for better relations.
Kornbluh is the author of a number of books, including The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History, Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba, and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which the Los Angeles Times selected as a “best book” of the year. He also has published widely in Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. His visit to Ohio University is part of an international book tour to promote Back Channels to Cuba.
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