reporting—implicates Kissinger in the planned assassination of a dissident Greek journalist, it seems well within the bounds of plausibility." In the Los Angeles Times, Warren I. Cohen said Hitchens "does a lawyerly job of demonstrating Kissinger's involvement" in the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende and "also spells out the American role in the Greek junta's attempt in 1974 to assassinate Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, and catches Kissinger and Ford acquiescing in the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975." A month after Hitchens' death, John R. MacArthur of Harper's Magazine, while criticizing Hitchens's interventionism after the September 11 attacks, referred to The Trial of Henry Kissinger as a "landmark book". Conversely, in a review for The Daily Telegraph, author George Jonas accused Hitchens of using devices improper to nonfiction, arguing that in one passage the author "admits he is guessing, but this does not prevent him from starting the paragraph by placing 'a tremor of anxiety' - ie, a consciousness of guilt - into Dr Kissinger's mind. This device might be acceptable in a novel - except this is not a novel." Kissinger biographer Niall Ferguson regarded the book as "deeply flawed [and] based on very thin research". Documentary film The book inspired the 2002 documentary film The Trials of Henry Kissinger, which was co-written by Hitchens and fellow writer/director, Alex Gibney. Hitchens makes an appearance in the film, being interviewed about Kissinger. The documentary also features film of Kissinger but only in archive footage. See also Seymour Hersh References External links Washington Journal interview with Hitchens on his Harper's article, "The Case Against Henry Kissinger", January 22, 2001, C-SPAN Presentation by Hitchens on The Trial of Henry Kissinger, June 28, 2001, C-SPAN 2002 non-fiction books Non-fiction books adapted into films Books by Christopher Hitchens Political books Henry Kissinger Verso Books books