A lot of people wanted Henry Kissinger dead and made no secret of it. "Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands," travel journalist Anthony Bourdain wrote in A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, referring to Kissinger's role in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia and his apparent satisfaction when the genocidal Khmer Rouge took power afterward.
So it's no surprise that Kissinger's FBI file, which the government began to release bit-by-bit this week under the Freedom of Information Act, is filled with investigations into death threats against him. As national security adviser to the Nixon administration and secretary of state in the Ford administration, Kissinger became the face of U.S. proxy warfare in the 1970s.
