at the time neither the french president francois mitterrand know his foreign minister would on tomorrow had any notion that diplomatic representatives in east asia were involved in human smuggling. vice consul jumpy and on time it needed to inform his appearance at the foreign ministry in paris fast. one tiny put us trust in a network of experts on china working for the administration and powers and it worked. they secured a tacit green light from the highest levels of government. secretly a special unit was formed in paris its job was to prepare for the refugees arrival and provide them with assistance as they settled in france. code named and lease it was stopped by just a few china experts. the oh did police was made up of one or 2 diplomats and a handful of people who hardly knew each other once in total 5 or 6 people all this happened on the periphery and in hong kong for example everything was arranged outside of administrative and governmental departments and because as one foreign minister aptly put it discretion is the cornerstone of efficiency to 60. elise was the french wing