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Article: Peter Kornbluh makes career of exposing old secrets.(National Security Archive)
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- October 1, 2007
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Peter Kornbluh has spent his life prying secrets from the U.S. government--and so far, he's had plenty of success.
Kornbluh is director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, a Washington-based nonprofit group. For years, he's specialized in the U.S. relationship with Latin America--especially Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua.
Much of Kornbluh's research is done by ferreting out state secrets, usually through Freedom of Information Act requests.
"I FOIA all the time. That's what I spend all my time doing," Kornbluh told CubaNews in a recent interview.
His tenacity usually pays off.
In 2000, he wrested ...