SPIT, I fear you may have got me mixed up with someone else.
That said however I can dream of an awful lot of guns....I've made so many bangy things I still see the damn things in my sleep...!
TicketyBoo, Capt W E Johns, you are bang on. As it was, the only innocent man murdered by the DSE that night in the name of French pride (?!) was Portugese photographer Fernando Perriera.
France sent their best secret agents to blow up an unarmed converted North Sea trawler protest vessel, at anchor in the best known harbour of a friendly country on the other side of the world...a country which had twice sent a generation of its finest to save their sorry a$$es because they were too gutless to be able to do it themselves, though God alone knows why we bothered.
This friendly country, with fewer people than Birmingham spread out over a greater area than mainland Britain, was only lightly armed, and had little in the way of police resources and no foreign intelligence links at that time.
And they still got caught.