State terrorists at work apartheid regime and on giving the maximum support to all currents in the Black resistance. Our trade- unionists build ties must strong the independent Black with unions and extend support to their actions."
This issue highlighted a pamphlet on South Africa published by one of the main Dutch labor confed- THE PUBLICATION of the Tricot Report on the involvement of erations, the FNV. It also carried the French secret services in the sinking of the Greenpeace flagship a major article on the activities of Dutch corporations in South "Rainbow Warrior" in a New Zealand harbor has proved counterAfrica, in particular Shell. productive for President Francois Mitterand.
In its editorial, the August 22 issue of Klassekampen, the paper of the Danish section of the Fourth International, concentrated on exposing the collaboration of the rightist Schlueter government in Denmark with apartheid:
"The South African regime's repression and barbarism are so open today that the Danish government has to do something. Ministers and bourgeois politicians talk a tough line against the South African racists, they have even shut down our general consulate. Their line sounds tough, but it is really soft.
"This is the same Danish government that has opposed coal imports has done nothing to stop AP Moeller from transporting oil to South Africa, which could its own proposal for a halt to investextragovernmental majority it with amendments, which as late as parliamentary South Africa clearly supported the Reagan administration's South Africa and which has opposed the proposal to increase aid to the victims of apartheid."
In its August 22 issue, Internationalen, the paper of the Socialist Party/ Swedish section of the Fourth International, stressed a petition of a group of engineering workers that is to be presented to the upcoming congress of their union:
"In Sweden all important organizations are against apartheid or claim to be. But the Swedish engineering union in fact accomodates the South African regime by opposing practical economic measures. On September 12, for example, it opposed the proposal to put teeth in the so-called South African Law for stopping new investment in that country.
"So, when a group of metalworkers took the initiative a few weeks ago launch a petition to for a total boycott of the racists, it came just in time."
RODRIGO O' FARRELL press, which was beginning to say openly that French espionage agents were responsible for the attack on the environmentalist vessel, in which a crew member was killed, the Social Democratic Party president a personality in the bourgeois opposition, an old Gaullist, to carry out an investigation. obviously to stop speculation that the gave the green light for this terrorist operation.
Instead, they reinforced the conviction government must have been involved environmentalist activists.
In his 25-page report, Tricot not only exonerated the top levels of the goverment and the officials in charge of the foreign security department (DGSE) but also the DGSE operatives who were caught at the scene of the crime by the New Zealand police.
the astonishment of many people Tricot gave a clean bill of health to those arrested in Auckland after the attack, Commander Alain Mafar, alias Alain Turenge, and Captain Dominique Prieur, alias Sophie, who mascaraded as his wife.
Tricot also claimed that the three French noncoms who operated on the yacht Ouvea also had to be consi dered innocent investigation Present the stage of the The explanation for the undercover presence of this military personnel in New Zealand, according to the veteran Gaullist white-washer, was that the DGSE had ordered all of them
"infiltrate its organization," and to "consider" means for disrupting its attempts to protest against a French nuclear test on Mururoa atoll.
Days before the report was released, the "Piscine" ("Swimming Pool"), as the general headquarters of the DGSE is called in Paris, leaked to a journalist working for the state radio the same version, that those arrested in New Zealand were officers in the French land army assigned to collecting information on Greenpeace and nothing more.
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This story was confirmed by Bernard Tricot, who disclosed that Admiral Pierre Lacoste, chief of the DGSE, had given such orders. They supposedly did not call for any violent action against the peace activists.
"Heading off" Greenpeace's protest actions was the key word in official cireles, Tricot discovered in reading an internal memorandum of the Ministry of Defense.
According to Admiral Henri Fages, commander of the French nuclear testing zone in the Pacific and the author of the memorandum in question, "heading off" did not mean sinking the Rainbow Warrior or anything like that. And Tricot accepted the statements of the officers involved as the revealed truth.
Consistent with this approach, Tricot was extremely careful to avoid even giving any names. About the crew of the yacht Ouvea, he said only that they had been in a port in the far north of New Zealand after June 22, that they had left the
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