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Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand Personally Approved the Attack on Greenpeace 20 Years Ago

Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand Personally Approved the Attack on Greenpeace 20 Years Ago

Twenty years ago, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in a harbor in Auckland, New Zealand. The French newspaper Le Monde recently revealed that the late French President Francois Mitterrand personally approved the sinking of the ship. We speak with David Robie, an independent journalist who was on board the ship and wrote the book “Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior.” [includes rush transcript]

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