France's secret service, DGSE bombed Greenpeace's ship then denied it

"The attack in Auckland on July 10, 1985 was aimed at preventing the Greenpeace ship from protesting French nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia. Two bombs were detonated before midnight sinking the vessel, however they also caused the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira." "At first the French Minister of Defence Charles Hernu denied French involvement in the actual bombing claiming Prieur and Mafart had simply been observing the Greenpeace ship."