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BVD "SOUNDING BOARD" COMMITTEE

During the final parliamentary session of 1992, the Internal Affairs minister, Ien Dales, told the Second Chamber that a 16-member, [...]

BVD AGENT "HOMERUS" IN THE NEWS

After fifteen years of undercover work for the BVD, agent [...]

BOSIO AFFAIR BACK IN COURT

In accepting the conclusions of the Tommel Report on the Bosio affair (I.N. n. 205), the Dutch government assumed it [...]

BVD'S 1991 ANNUAL REPORT

The Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) recently published its first annual report [...]

UNCOOPERATIVE PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS

Although the privatized PTT has adapted to some police monitoring [...]

END OF THE BOSIO AFFAIR?

The Dutch government formally accepted in late October the conclusions [...]

BYE BYE NOVELL SECURITY

Last month Novell's popular PC networking software suffered a fatal [...]

CRI DISCOVERS CASH CROP DRUGS AT HOME

The Dutch CRI National Criminal Intelligence Service was surprised to [...]

NEW INVESTIGATION OF THE IDB

The Attorney General has asked for a fresh investigation into [...]

BUDGET RESTRICTION TO CLOSE THINK-TANK?

The government sponsored research institute, Clingendael, specialized in the study [...]

SCHENGEN INTO OPERATION

Two regions of the Dutch police, Rotterdam and Arnhem, start [...]

BVD LOOKING FOR CORRUPTION

The BVD internal security service will soon be visiting national [...]

K. J. SIETSMA

K. J. Sietsma has been appointed director of Interseco BV, the specialized security and personal protection company which operates in [...]

"RF FLOODING" TAPS IN COURT

In a Den Bosch court on 14 July evidence was given that Dutch services were using loopholes in the law [...]

According to a recently released parliamentary report, the French businessman [...]

PID & MID FILES TO BE BURNED

Records belonging to the Politie Inlichtingsdiensten (PID, criminal intelligence) will be included in the destruction of an estimated 75% of [...]

BVD CAN ASK ANYBODY ANYTHING

The powerful local government employees union, Abvakaho - representing over 290,000 workers - and the lord mayor of Winsum in [...]

Following the roll up of the KGB network in Belgium [...]

POLICE-BVD TEAM TERMINATED?

The combined police-BVD investigating team, LCT-2, that had been probing the leftist, anti-racist Rara bombings in late 1991 (I.N. n. [...]