Peter Kornbluh
PBS Two-Part Documentary to Be Broadcast Tonight
“American Experience” Film Features National Security Archive Analyst Peter Kornbluh
Archive Supplied Formerly Secret Documents on Kissinger’s Role in Chile
Washington, D.C., October 27, 2025 – Tonight, PBS stations across the country will begin airing a two-part biographic documentary on Henry Alfred Kissinger, depicting his life and the controversial legacy of his foreign policies. “According to the featured experts,” concludes a review of the film published in Foreignpolicy.com, “Kissinger learned the wrong lessons from his experiences with Nazi Germany. By keeping his eye trained so high above the ground, not only did he accept rampant political violence and repression but crafted foreign policies that strengthened those very forces.”
As one of the world’s leading repositories of Kissinger documentation, the National Security Archive supported the film with declassified records, historical perspective and subject-matter expertise. Archive Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh, who directs the Chile Documentation Project, provided formerly “Top Secret” records on Kissinger’s role as the architect of policies and operations to destabilize the elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende. Among them are documents about U.S. support to the September 11, 1973, military coup and efforts to assist the consolidation of the repressive regime that took power. “In Chile,” according to the Foreign Policy review, “Kissinger shaped U.S. policy that allowed the military overthrow of a democratically elected regime in 1973 and resulted in the reign of General Augusto Pinochet, who systematically violated human rights.” (…)
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U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election
Washington, D.C., March 1, 2012 — Today marks the 30th anniversary of the coup that propelled General Efrain Rios Montt to power and launched the most violent period of the 36-year internal armed conflict in Guatemala. The National Security Archive and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) mark the coup anniversary with the publication today of NACLA Report on the Americas, “Central America: Legacies of War,” containing feature article by National Security Archive’s Kate Doyle on “Justice in Guatemala.”