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  2. Rainbow Warrior (1955) - Wikipedia

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    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 (the French intelligence service) bombed Rainbow Warrior in the Port of Auckland, New Zealand on 10 July 1985, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.

  3. Fernando Pereira - Wikipedia

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    Fernando Pereira (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985. The bombing of the boat had been designed to make the ship unsalvageable.

  4. Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - Wikipedia

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    The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, [1] was an act of French state terrorism. [2] 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 carried out on 10 July 1985.

  5. Rainbow Warrior - Wikipedia

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    Rainbow Warrior, former fishing trawler Sir William Hardy, acquired by Greenpeace in 1978 and sunk by the French intelligence service in 1985 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, in 1985; Rainbow Warrior, auxiliary three-masted schooner, acquired by Greenpeace in 1989; Rainbow Warrior, purpose-designed Greenpeace ship

  6. Rainbow Warrior Case - Wikipedia

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    The Rainbow Warrior Case was a dispute between New Zealand and France that arose in the aftermath of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.It was arbitrated by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in 1986, and became significant in the subject of public international law for its implications on state responsibility.

  7. Susi Newborn - Wikipedia

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    This was the first ship that Greenpeace owned. [6]: 460 Newborn and others named the ship the Rainbow Warrior, [7] after the book Warriors of the Rainbow, a book by William Willoya and Vinson Brown. [8] [1] Becoming disillusioned with the UK branch of Greenpeace, Newborn resigned as the British director in 1979. [9]

  8. Rainbow Warrior (1957) - Wikipedia

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    Rainbow Warrior (sometimes informally called Rainbow Warrior II) was a three-masted schooner most notable for service with the environmental protection organization Greenpeace. She was built to replace the original Rainbow Warrior that the French intelligence service (DGSE) bombed in 1985 in the Port of Auckland , New Zealand , which sank the ...

  9. Xavier Maniguet - Wikipedia

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    Xavier Maniguet (17 October 1946 – 22 March 2009) was a French medical writer, doctor and intelligence service agent.. Along with Roland Verge, Gerald Andries and Jean-Michel Barcelo, Maniguet bombed the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand's Auckland Harbour on 10 July 1985.