Claim: Franco Piperno (born on January 5, 1943 in Catanzaro City) is a former communist militant who graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in Physics, and in 1969 was suspected of having sabotaged a Boston Chemical plant that produced defoliant used in the Vietnam war.
Evidence: Franco Piperno (born 5 January 1943) is a former communist militant from Italy. Piperno was born in Catanzaro. The city Catanzaro is both capital of the province and capital of the region of Calabria. He graduated in physics at the University of Pisa and was member of the FGCI (Italy's communist youth organization). After his expulsion, in 1969 he was suspected of having sabotaged a Boston Chemical plant, which produced defoliant used in the Vietnam war, but he was immediately released.