Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The sinking of "Rainbow Warrior", codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the "Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure" (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, "Rainbow Warrior", at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand on her way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.