Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst
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The Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) was a former Dutch security and intelligence agency.
The BVD was established in 1949, replacing the Bureau for National Security (BNV).[1]
According to security researcher Daniele Ganser, the BVD's first head, Louis Einthoven, set up a secret stay behind network codenamed 'O'.[2]
In 1994, the Dutch foreign intelligence service, the IDB, was closed down in the wake of controversy over its cold war activities and its functions taken over by the BVD.[3]
In 2002, the BVD was renamed the Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD), or General Intelligence and Security Service.[1]
People
Directors
- Louis Einthoven c.1949
- Arthur Docters van Leeuwen c.1991.[4]
- Nico Buis c.1997.[5]
- Sybrand van Hulst chief BVD-AIVD 1997-2007.[6]
Officers
Agents
External resources
Jon Henley, Mr Chips turns out to be 007, The Guardian, 4 December 2004.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (National Intelligence and Security Agency), Federation of American Scientists, accessed 18 March 2013.
- ↑ Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.152.
- ↑ Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.151.
- ↑ Holland: Hague bomb, Statewatch bulletin, Vol 3 no 4 July-August 1993.
- ↑ NICO W.G. BUIS, Intelligence Online, 13 February 1997.
- ↑ Giles Scott-Smith, Interdoc: Full Story With Pics, The Holland Bureau, 5 December 2012.
