The World - News from Aug. 22, 1985
New Zealand police said that the woman held in the sinking of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is a French army officer. Detective Allan Galbraith said in Auckland that New Zealand detectives working in France have established that the woman charged under the name of Sophie Claire Turenge is actually Capt. Dominique Prieur. French newspapers had said she worked for France’s espionage agency. Galbraith said detectives have been unable to confirm the identity of the man charged under the name Alain Jacques Turenge.
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