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...breakthrough came from Le Canard Enchaine. In its Sept. 11 issue the magazine speculated that another, heretofore unknown, team of French agents might have been sent to New Zealand to blow up the ship. A week later Le Monde Reporters Bernard le Gendre and Edwy Plenel revealed that two frogmen had placed mines on the Rainbow Warrior before escaping. Their orders, the paper said, had to have come from a high level within the government, since none of the military figures involved would credibly have acted on their own. The tone of the articles was so authoritative that the government...
...meanwhile, two other DGSE agents face a preliminary hearing in November in connection with the sinking. Identified as Major Alain Mafart, 34, and Captain Dominique Prieur, 36, they were arrested shortly after the attack in Auckland harbor. The French government now acknowledges they were a support team for the frogmen who planted the hull-attached mines but argues that they should not be prosecuted since they were acting under orders. New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, however, has ruled out any "deal" to exchange their freedom for French reparations. Denouncing the sabotage mission as "a sordid act of terrorism," Lange...
...saboteurs of the Rainbow Warrior were neither the jailed pair of French agents nor the three-man crew of the spy yacht Ouvea, which allegedly had been sent from the French territory of New Caledonia to back up the operation. The real hitmen, claimed Le Monde, were two unidentified frogmen, probably from France's underwater demolition training base in Corsica, who were supplied with explosives by the support teams. They were said to have attached two mines to the Rainbow Warrior, first a smaller charge to force any occupants off the ship, and then a second one to sink...
...yacht spotted in New Zealand waters shortly before the explosion. The fact that Mafart and the Ouvea crew members were all experts in underwater demolition raised new suspicions. Alain Madelin, a rightist member of the French Assembly, spoke for many doubters when he bluntly questioned "the need to dispatch frogmen to take photographs...
...secret police in a plot to silence Popieluszko. Hope for the priest's safe return soon gave way to the suspicion that hard-line factions in the regime were trying to cover up the truth about the disappearance. The awful reality broke on Tuesday, when police frogmen found the priest's body in a reservoir on the Vistula River, 85 miles northwest of Warsaw...