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]

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External resources

Jon Henley, Mr Chips turns out to be 007, The Guardian, 4 December 2004.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) (National Intelligence and Security Agency), Federation of American Scientists, accessed 18 March 2013.
  2. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.152.
  3. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.151.
  4. Holland: Hague bomb, Statewatch bulletin, Vol 3 no 4 July-August 1993.
  5. NICO W.G. BUIS, Intelligence Online, 13 February 1997.
  6. Giles Scott-Smith, Interdoc: Full Story With Pics, The Holland Bureau, 5 December 2012.