Security covens protected — group
PA Wellington The decision to accept a guilty plea on lesser charges in the Rainbow Warrior bombing case had protected international security covens from exposure, says the president of New Zealand Council for World Peace, Mr Gerald O’Brien.
“Public alarm may only be allayed by giving the public full access to all the evidence on which the foreign agents were held in custody for such a long period,” said Mr O’Brien. At least a Parliamentary commission of inquiry into the incident was necessary, ... “so that the international security community be no longer shielded from scrutiny by the elected representatives of the people and
that the revelation of the nature of the activities perpetrated by these secret agents be clearly demonstrated to be no longer tolerable in any civilised community.” The council, through Mr O’Brien, has made these suggestions to the Prime Minister, Mr Lange.
Mr O’Brien asked that police evidence against the accused be released. “This should at least reveal the nature of the operations of foreign agents (some say up to 20) in our country, and the manner in which our own highly funded security services dealt with or, apparently, failed to deal with these foreign homicidal activities against the peace movement.”,
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