Maxwell wrote a review in "Foreign Affairs"' November/December 2003 of Peter Kornbluh's book "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability". The review was written in his capacity as a scholar, independently of his role as an employee of the Council. Maxwell's review was, in part, critical of Henry Kissinger's relationship with the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Maxwell claims that key Council on Foreign Relations acting at Kissinger's behest put pressure on "Foreign Affairs" editor, James Hoge, to give the last word in a subsequent exchange about the review to William D. Rogers, a close associate of Kissinger's, rather than to Maxwell; this went against established "Foreign Affairs" policy.