History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations right now. This powerful book is essential to making sense of the new and ongoing steps towards normalization between the longtime antagonists. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba - beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo - Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. More Information

Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC. He has worked at the Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University, as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He is also the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, among other books.