"French intelligence service (DGSE) agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart were convicted of the manslaughter of photographer Fernando Pereira and sinking a ship, Greenpeace's the ""Rainbow Warrior"", in 1985, in which harbour?"
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior the ship while it was open to public viewing. DGSE agent Christine Cabon, posing as environmentalist "Frederique Bonlieu", volunteered to work in the Greenpeace office in Auckland. Cabon "was no ordinary lieutenant...a veteran of many dangerous intelligence missions in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon." Cabon secretly monitored communications from the "Rainbow Warrior", collected maps, and investigated underwater equipment, in order to provide information crucial to the sinking. Three agents on board the yacht "Ouvéa" imported the limpet mines used for the bombing. Two more agents, Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart, posing as the newlywed couple "Sophie and Alain Turenge",
Alain Mafart Alain Mafart Alain Mafart (born in 1951) is a French military officer best known for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Mafart was a DGSE agent and deputy commander of the French Navy Training Centre in Corsica. He supported the sabotage team that travelled to New Zealand and bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel "Rainbow Warrior", drowning photographer Fernando Pereira. He was apprehended by New Zealand police, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on 22 November 1985. Following heavy political pressure from France and her allies and a United Nations-sponsored mediation between