Speaking of missing information, long waits and GWU’s NSA archive project, I have been emailing them for years to put the classified files pertaining to Orlando Letelier on their website … all the files. While they have put “some” material on their site, there exists a substantial body of documents that were retrieved after his assassination indicating he was working for both the Cuban and East German intelligence agencies. Countless emails have gone unanswered and I could only postulate that the reason Peter Kornbluh and his colleagues at GWU are so shy about releasing the material on the Letelier killing is because he has such a vested interest in portraying the murder as an act of terrorism on DINA’s part (Chilean secret police) instead of what it was: spy on spy.

Almost makes you think that the good folks at GWU who are committed to openness in the name of a robust historical debate seem to apply this dogma for materials that embarrass the United States and not those that would undermine any positions they advocate.