Louis-Pierre Dillais is a French businessman. He acknowledged his involvement with the sinking of the ''Rainbow Warrior'' in an interview with New Zealand State broadcaster

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in 2005. Admiral

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said in 2005 to the ''

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'' that Dillais was not part of the " third team".

Life

According to Greenpeace, his father-in-law is former Foreign Minister

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. In 1994, French

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appointed Dillais as chief of the private office of the Minister of Defence, in charge of military intelligence. Dillais had already "worked for the general secretariat of the 'Defense National', attached to Prime Ministerial Services, in charge of European-Atlantic affairs". A 1996 account in the ''

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'', according to ''

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'', links him to politics- and arms-related money laundering. He was reported in 2007 as living in

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. In 2012, ''De Standaard'' wrote that he is a former agent of the Directorate-General for External Security, DGSE, while Greenpeace called him a terrorist. ''De Morgen'' reported that he was holding a top position in the FN Herstal United States, U.S. operations unit since 2005. Minister Jean-Claude Marcourt defended Dillais' position as an "internal decision by FN Herstal." and the Rainbow Warrior an "internal French" issue. In response to a parliamentary question by Bert Anciaux about Dillais, minister Joëlle Milquet says she will screen background check measures in a workgroup, aimed at more companies in more sectors. In 2012, Greenpeace called for his deportation.

References

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