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Do they have an episode drilling into the FUBAR that was Opération Satanique ?

It may have been alluded to but definitely not discussed in any detail.

Pity - it was a bit of an epic real life French Intelligence goes bad story.

Thanks for reply, I came back here after spending a bit of time searching the episode descriptions for key words - no Greenpeace (not even green), few uses of nuclear (and none related), no Rainbows or Zealand's.

Guess they just skipped right over that face plant of DGSE history :/

The plot wasn't based on true events. Also the DGSE cooperated in the production of the series so I imagine they weren't too keen on that. That said, I didn't feel that the series was a "look how awesome we are!" puff piece. On the contrary the characters were very human and they fucked up a lot. I like that it was subtle and not action-y.

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