14 Facts About Raffi Khatchadourian

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Raffi Khatchadourian is well known for his investigative pieces on an array of topics such as WikiLeaks, the Iraq War, Tiversa, US military experimenting, and genocide.

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Raffi Khatchadourian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Raffi Khatchadourian earned an International Relations master's degree from Columbia University.

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Raffi Khatchadourian has contributed freelance work to a number of publications after returning from Moscow, including The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, Conde Nast Traveler, Smithsonian magazine and Salon.

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Raffi Khatchadourian spent time in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in 2001 in order to report on US military involvement in Afghanistan for The Nation and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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In 2003, prior to joining the staff at The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote a five-segment piece for The Village Voice on the construction of an oil pipeline through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.

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Raffi Khatchadourian was a fellow at the International Reporting Project in 2005.

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Raffi Khatchadourian began working for The New Yorker in 2003 as a staff fact-checker.

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Raffi Khatchadourian wrote his first piece for the magazine, "Azzam the American, " in 2007 and transitioned to a staff writer in 2008.

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Since then, Raffi Khatchadourian has written a number of investigative pieces for The New Yorker on a range of topics.

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Raffi Khatchadourian captured this as he told Assange's story, from starting WikiLeaks to keeping an eye out for the next leak.

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Raffi Khatchadourian spent time with Assange, and his team at the time, in Iceland.

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Raffi Khatchadourian unveiled the extent to which a vast assortment of different chemicals were being tested on, often unknowing, US soldiers.

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Raffi Khatchadourian often gave unwitting people, including high-ranking officers, LSD, without informed consent.

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