The Iran-Contra Affair: A National Security Archive Documents Reader (National Security Archive documents readers) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565840240 ISBN 13: 9781565840249

Publisher: The New Press, 1994

Synopsis

National Security archival documents--including top-secret White House Records and Oliver North's diaries--are combined to detail the decisions and programs that made up the most serious constitutional scandal of modern times.

About this title

Review:

"The work of the National Security Archive has helped prevent this issue from being swept under the rug, The Iran-Contra Scandal. . . is a history we must not forget." —Village Voice

About the Author:

Peter Kornbluh directs the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He is the author of Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability and a co-author (with Laurence Chang) of Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader and (with Malcolm Byrne) of The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History, all published by The New Press. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Malcolm Byrne is the director of analysis at the National Security Archive. He coedited the Archive’s first book on the Iran-Contra scandal, The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras, and is the author of numerous articles on the scandal.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1565840240
• ISBN 13: 9781565840249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Byrne Malcolm, Kornbluh Peter