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Fred Branfman | |
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Born | New York City, New York, United States | March 12, 1942
Died | September 24, 2014 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 72)
Occupation | writer |
Known for | Project Air War, documenting bombing of Laos |
Frederick Robert Branfman (March 18, 1942 – September 24, 2014) was an American anti-war activist and author of a number of books about the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War who exposed the covert bombing of Laos by the US. Working as the Director of Project Air War in 1969 he wrote about the U.S. bombing in Indochina, which he claimed was directed at civilians.