When Bui Tin exiled himself to France in 1990, he foresaw a brief stay, believing that Vietnam would soon come to its senses and boot the communists from power. Three decades later, he was still in Paris, where he died on August 11 at age 90.
Tin had been a prominent figure in the regime he came to despise—a colonel in the North Vietnamese Army and deputy editor of Nhan Dan, the Army's official newspaper. In the late 1960s, he interviewed John McCain when he was a prisoner of war held in the old French prison known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” In 1991, the two men embraced and became friends, after Tin's appearance before a U.S. Senate committee investigating POWs.
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