19. Attack on Greenpeace: Death in the Pacific (Ep 2)

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Did the French secret service commit an act of state terrorism by sinking a Greenpeace ship? Why did the tragedy of the Rainbow Warrior become known as BlunderWatergate? How many millions of dollars did France have to pay Greenpeace in compensation? The French have bombed the Rainbow Warrior, forcing its environmentalist crew to flee for their lives, but one member of the team is stuck on board. As the story of the attack starts to spread around the world, what ensues is a frantic man-hunt to unmask the perpetrators and bring them to justice. In this episode, Gordon and David trawl through the murky aftermath of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, debating how this disastrous operation informs sabotage missions to this day. ------------------- Pre-order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, via this link. ------------------- Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ www.nordvpn.com/restisclassified It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @triclassified Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	We were not cold-blooded killers.
1:12.4	We have done, we did what we were ordered to do.
1:17.0	Our first intention was to neutralize the boat without hurting any people or killing anybody.
1:19.7	And it was considered a failed operation.
1:22.5	Nobody wanted to kill anybody.
1:30.6	That is the testimony of Jean-Luc Gisterre, a member of France's external security service,
1:35.6	the direction general of the security exterior, the DGSE. And he is the frog man, the member of the dive team who has planted an explosive, two explosives actually, on the underside of the
1:46.5	Hall of the Rainbow Warrior, a ship owned by Greenpeace, the environmental activist group,
1:52.5	and we were talking about this battle for the Pacific between France and Greenpeace over
1:58.6	nuclear testing and Greenpeace's efforts to disrupt those.
2:02.6	And French intelligence decided last time that they were actually going to take batters
2:07.2	into their own hands and send Greenpeace a message and put a hole in the side of the Rainbow
2:13.7	Warrior, Greenpeace's sort of flagship boat, I guess you could say, in Auckland
2:20.1	Harbor. And when we left them last time, it was just after midnight and the Rainbow Warriors
2:27.1	on its side sort of half submerged in the dock in Auckland, thanks to these limpet mines,
2:32.8	these explosives that Jean-Luc
2:34.6	Kisteir and the DGSE have planted.
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