Cuba: Documents Chart History of Secret Communications
National Security Archive
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Description
On December 17, 2014, Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced a breakthrough in United States-Cuba relations. Behind that public moment lay years of secret contacts. Peter Kornbluh edited this major collection, announced in December 2017 near the third anniversary of that date.
The documents chart the history of secret communications between the two governments. Back channels let enemies talk when open diplomacy is frozen, and this set preserves how those talks worked in practice. It is a useful record for anyone studying how long-hostile states begin, quietly, to change course.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | National Security Archive |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11,134 bytes |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | National Security Archive |