Film of agents destroyed
PA Auckland The Air Force has impounded and destroyed a film showing the French agents, Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart, being greeted with kisses and embraces by French military and Government officials on Wallis Island.
The film was taken by an officer crewman aboard the R.N.Z.A.F. Orion in which the spies flew to the island to be banded to the French authorities. The officer told the “Auckland Star” he took a roll of colour film of the couple being transferred to the military aircraft which was to fly them to the atoll of Hao,
where they are to spend the next three years. Prieur and Mafart, he said, were greeted with hugs and kisses, then walked across the runway to the aircraft. An Air Force spokesman said that although the film was the crewman’s personal property, it had been impounded and destroyed.
The International agreement on the release and transfer of the agents to Hao specified that no photographs be produced.
“That could prejudice the Government’s arrangements,” he said. “It could prejudice the whole thing.”
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