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Testimony by returned Air Force, Marine and Navy pilots and intelligence officers, and analyses of the air war by Fred Branfman, Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) all dealt with what the Veteran described as the widening gap between the reality of America's involvement in Indochina and the picture which the Johnson and Nixon administrations have attempted to impress upon the American public...
...Anyone who thinks that the war in Indochina is winding down is sadly deluding himself. There has been a full-scale war in Laos for the last seven years without any American ground troops being involved," Branfman, who is director of Project Air War, a Washington based research organization, told the audience in Boston's Faneuil Hall...
...Branfman said the Pentagon has admitted authorizing half a million sorties over Laos since 1964. The major effort of these combat missions, according to Branfman, has been to depopulate sectors controlled by the Pathet Lao. Branfman described three antipersonnel weapons now being used by the U.S. military in this effort--the "pineapple," the "guava," and the flachette...
...Branfman will be followed at noon by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), who is expected to deliver a brief speech followed by a question and answer period...
Friday evening's testimony will concern the social conditions which the rural refugees face. Branfman, returned medics, IVS personnel and an side of Kennedy's will participate in a panel discussing the present and future problems faced by these refugees...