Bibliograph

The Pinochet file, a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability, Peter Kornbluh

Type

Label

The Pinochet file, a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability, Peter Kornbluh

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Pinochet file

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Peter Kornbluh

Sub title

a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability

Summary

Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet's infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government's complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet's story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger's attempt to undercut the book's reception-efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power

Target audience

adult

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