Secret Dialogue With Cuba: The History Obama Needs to Normalize Relations

Recorded November 12, 2014

Below is the original description of the event.

While the history of U.S.–Cuba relations is littered with acts of aggression, the story of back-channel communications and attempts at reconciliation is less well-known. President Obama would do well to look to the hidden past as he faces the best opportunity in 50 years to normalize relations.

Peter Kornbluh directs the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington D.C. and is the co-author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana.