CANTON -- Peter Kornbluh, foreign affairs author and director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, visited St. Lawrence University April 22 and 23.

Kornbluh visited a class Thursday taught by Evelyn Jennings, associate professor and associate dean for academic advising programs, and delivered a lecture the night before.

Kornbluh has helped to obtain and analyze thousands of declassified U.S. government documents in relation to major episodes in U.S.-Latin American relations. These events include the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion, the Contra War and U.S. destabilization of the Chilean government and its subsequent support for the Pinochet regime.

In addition to “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana,” which was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year for 2014, he is also the author of “The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability,” among other books, reports and contributions to scholarly volumes.