On the night of July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior, an important ship of Greenpeace, was moored in Auckland, the largest port in northern New Zealand. This time, the Rainbow Warrior was ordered by the organization to go to the French nuclear test base on Mururoa Island in the South Pacific to protest the upcoming nuclear test.
At : , the main person in charge of Greenpeace concluded the important meeting held on the ship, arranged the major actions to be taken the next day and left the ship, while the 12 crew members returned to the ship to have a rest. Ten minutes later, with a loud noise at the stern, the hull shook violently, and a big hole was blasted in the right rear of the hull, and seawater flooded into the bottom cabin. The crew ran to the shore before they could get dressed, but a Portuguese photographer sank to the bottom of the sea with the Rainbow Warrior in the second loud noise.
The next day, the news that the Rainbow Warrior was sunk shocked New Zealand and made the whole world stunned.
The New Zealand government attaches great importance to the explosion. Prime Minister Langyi requested that a special action team be formed to immediately seal off the scene, search the sea and catch the murderer.
The sea search team found a small hovercraft near the explosion site, but it was empty. The police only found an oxygen bottle for diving and some communication equipment on the boat, all of which were engraved with a line: Made in France, January 1984. As a result, people put a question mark on French agents.
At the same time, another group of investigators launched an investigation in the port area. A few days later, they learned that on the day of the crime, there was a couple in their thirties who drove many times on the shore of the Rainbow Warrior. The special action team seized this clue and, with the cooperation of relevant departments, began to look for the couple. Two days later, when the couple were preparing to leave Auckland by plane at the airport, the police suddenly appeared in front of them. When the police asked them to show their passports, they calmly took out two Swiss passports.
What is the historical background? After careful checking, the shrewd policeman still found a flaw in the woman's passport: her face obviously had plastic surgery, and her nose was artificially raised.
In the police station, what is the historical background? The psychological defense of this man and woman finally collapsed. They told the truth: they are not Swiss, but two agents of the French secret intelligence organization, the Intelligence Center of the French General Administration of Overseas Security. This time, they were sent by the French General Administration of Overseas Security, posing as Swiss tourists to spy on information and reporting to the Paris headquarters in time. The two men also took the initiative to tell the New Zealand authorities that they had exchanged views with three French crew members on a sailboat named Uvea on July 5. Just then, the special action team learned that the sailing boat Uwia had appeared nearby just a few hours before the Rainbow Warrior exploded. As a result, the spearhead was directed at the Uvea, and all the police launched a new round of comprehensive search. On the afternoon of July 14th, the sailing boat Uvea was finally discovered in the ocean not far from Australia. The New Zealand Navy immediately sent speedboats to intercept. There are three people on board, holding merchant passports issued by Paris. Because the documents are impeccable and the sailboat is on the high seas, the New Zealand police have no right to arrest it. After finding a map of Auckland and a roll of film, the police let them go.
In fact, these three Frenchmen were the special agents sent by the French General Administration of Overseas Security to meet them. It was they and two other agents who smuggled the bomb that blew up the Rainbow Warrior and loaded it on board. Although the Uvea slipped away, the case was basically clear.
With the progress of the New Zealand police investigation, the suspects of these three Frenchmen are becoming more and more serious. The New Zealand police decided to issue an international wanted order through Interpol.
When the police analyzed the map found on three Frenchmen, they accidentally found a name written in pencil on the map: Christina Cabo.
In response to this clue, the police launched another investigation. At the critical moment, Ms. Vidal, a member of Greenpeace who helped the New Zealand police solve the case, recognized the handwriting of the name.
At the end of p>1984, Vidal met a beautiful French woman. This woman claimed to be Boluo and graduated from the University of Paris majoring in geology. She also said that it is her greatest wish and dream to join Greenpeace and contribute to environmental protection. At Boluo's strong request, Vidal arranged for her to work in the Oakland branch in Greenpeace. In fact, this woman's real name is Christina Cabo, and she is the right-hand man of the French General Administration of Overseas Security. Her task is to collect all information that is harmful to the French government and undermine any action that is unfavorable to France.
Kabo quickly gained the trust of his colleagues by using his beauty and generosity. What is the historical background? After careful observation, she finally chose the right target, and within a few months, she became intimate with Leiteke, a confidential translator in the Auckland branch.
One night, after Cabo got Letock drunk, what was the historical background? A soft grind got Letock out of his mouth about the urgency of the Rainbow Warrior. The news was quickly sent to the French General Administration of Overseas Security in Paris. Just after the explosion of the Rainbow Warrior, New Zealand police found that Boluo had disappeared.
In August p>1985, a group of New Zealand investigators flew to Paris with the head of Greenpeace.
French President Francois Mitterrand was very angry when he heard the news. He immediately gave Premier fabius an instruction to investigate the participants as soon as possible and announce the results to the world. Fabius hurriedly called Admiral lacoste, the old director of the State Administration of Overseas Security, who was on vacation in other places, and after careful discussion, they decided to appoint tricot, the former highest judge of the Executive Yuan and a non-partisan to investigate the case.
The positive attitude of the tricot team in the investigation seems to indicate that the French government really doesn't know the details of the case, and they are all innocent.
Finally, when tricot released the investigation report, he asserted that the French General Administration of Overseas Security did send six agents to Auckland (namely, the fake Swiss couple, three French crew members and Boluo), but all French leading organs never issued an order to blow up the Rainbow Warrior, and the six agents did not commit any deviant behavior.
Subsequently, the French Ministry of Defence made a famous statement: As long as the New Zealand government has conclusive evidence to prove that the French did it, the French government will definitely severely punish it!
However, the fact is that even Premier fabius was kept in the dark by the President and several cronies of the President. This action was instructed by Defense Minister Erni to the Overseas Security Bureau, and was planned and directed by General Yankee Wall, who was in charge of overseas affairs.
The purpose of this operation named Destroying the Rainbow is to blow up the Rainbow Warrior before it reaches the French South Pacific nuclear test base. The action is carried out in three steps. First, Major Mafal and Captain Pourieux disguised themselves as a Swiss couple and went to Auckland Port as tourists to find out the situation on the one hand and specify the specific explosion plan on the other. Secondly, Cabo is responsible for preparing underwater breathing apparatus and rubber dinghy, and providing a map of Auckland Port and the specific location of the ship. Finally, Sergeant Vercher, Sergeant Andrea, Sergeant Bartholo and two trained frogmen drove the Uvea sailboat to transport two powerful time bombs, and the two frogmen loaded the bombs on the bottom of the Rainbow Warrior.
After the explosion was successful, two frogmen left Auckland Harbour in advance, while Major Mafal and his wife stayed in New Zealand to observe the results and arrange the evacuation.
Although the operation was successful, they left too many clues. Under the obstruction of the French government, the matter was finally settled. However, there is no windtight wall in the world. Just when the French were complacent, Le Monde, which was controlled by the opposition in France, suddenly threw inside information on the front page on September 17, pointing out for sure that the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was the work of agents of the French General Administration of Overseas Security. Le Monde also listed other evidences, pointing out that the action was ordered by Erni, Minister of National Defense, and Lacaze, Chief of Staff of the three armed forces, and they provided false information to tricot afterwards!
The press made other related reports one after another, and President Mitterrand immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. The French government is in a very passive embarrassing situation.
On September 22nd, Premier fabius held a press conference in the Prime Minister's Office, publicly acknowledged the truth of the case and announced the resignation report of Defense Minister Erni.
The next day, Premier fabius made an oral apology to Prime Minister Langyi through the French Ambassador to New Zealand.
A year later, after many discussions on the historical background of France and New Zealand, they all thought it was inappropriate to make a big deal out of it. Therefore, under the mediation of UN Secretary-General De Cuellar, the two sides reached an agreement in early September 1986, and unanimously agreed to completely solve the Rainbow Warrior incident in the following ways: the French President officially apologized to Greenpeace and compensated for the loss of 7 million US dollars; New Zealand escorted two French agents to a military base in the South Pacific of France, but their service time was reduced from 11 years sentenced by a New Zealand court to 3 years.
Immediately afterwards, President Mitterrand announced that lacoste, director of the French General Administration of Overseas Security, had been dismissed and General Lacaze, chief of staff of the three armed forces, had been forced to resign.