# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bui-tin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:00:28.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bui-tin"
name: "Bui Tin"
slug: "bui-tin"
description: "Bùi Tín was a Vietnamese dissident and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) colonel, serving in the PAVN general staff. After the war, he became disillusioned by corruption and the continuing isolation of the newly unified Vietnam. He decided to leave Vietnam and live in exile in Paris to express his growing dissatisfaction with the Communist Party of Vietnam and their political system."
tagline: "Vietnamese soldier, political dissident and defector (1927–2018)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Bui_Tin_pic.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1927-12-29"
deathDate: "2018-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.62
  momentum:             3.492488216810683
  historical:           8.698897333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E8%A3%B4%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بوى تين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B9i_T%C3%ADn"
    title: "Bùi Tín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tin"
    title: "Bui Tin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ブイ・ティン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bui_Tin"
    title: "Bui Tin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B9_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Буй Тин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B9i_T%C3%ADn"
    title: "Bùi Tín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B9i_T%C3%ADn"
    title: "Bùi Tín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A3%B4%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "裴信"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3375353"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump