Assassination ordered by French president, Mitterand.

Nothing like a little terror ordered by the French.

It only emerged this year that Mitterrand had authorised the [1985] bombing [of Greenpeace's ship, Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand]. [Head of the secret service, Admiral Pierre] Lacoste wrote in a leaked memo that Mitterrand wanted to stop Greenpeace disrupting French nuclear weapon tests in the Pacific.

You'd be missing a lot if you don't read the following article and the other one cited by Zacht Ei.

In the latter article, note the point about French military hardware exports having "disarm" codes. The weapon in question there was the Exocet. The Colonel has always prayed for the existence of such codes in U.S. hardware sold to the Saudis and other such.

Also a fascinating story about exchanges between Mitterand and Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War.

"France blamed MI6 for Rainbow Warrior." By Rob Evans and Paul Brown, The Guardian, 11/28/05 <--Zacht Ei.