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The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
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Greenpeace
Non-governmental environmental organization
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Rainbow Warrior (1955)
Greenpeace vessel bombed by French intelligence operatives in Auckland harbour (1985)
Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship involved in campaigns against whaling, seal hunting, nuclear testing and nuclear waste dumping during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure bombed Rainbow Warrior in the Port of Auckland, New…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
1985 covert attack by French foreign intelligence service on a Greenpeace ship
The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was an act of French state terrorism. Described as a "covert operation" by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence agency, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), the terrorist attack was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Auckland
Largest city in New Zealand
Auckland is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about 1,530,500. It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Directorate General for External Security
France's external intelligence agency
The Directorate General for External Security is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE safeguards French national security through intelligence gathering and conducting paramilitary and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fernando Pereira
Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer; killed during the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing
Fernando Pereira was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)