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The Last Days of the Rainbow Warrior
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What the French government couldn't legally do, it had the secret service do illegally 40 years ago: sabotage Greenpeace's protest against its nuclear tests. The story captivated France in the summer of 1985 and led to a major political scandal.
·Antwerp, Belgium
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The Last Days of the Rainbow Warrior
That snooty woman with the heavy French accent who showed up out of the blue to start volunteering with Greenpeace in New Zealand in April, 1985? She was a spy from the French government’s intelligence and espionage service. “Frédérique Bonlieu” was part of an elaborate plot to infiltrate the group and plant bombs on the Rainbow Warrior to prevent the ship from undertaking missions in the South Pacific. The French government had been embarrassed…
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