Lifting the Fog
The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)
Published on 10. June 2024
Book
Hardback
676 pages
978-1-5381-7623-8 (ISBN)
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Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022) is unique as a general body of knowledge about the history of the Dutch intelligence and security services since 1913. The chapters alternate between a general historical overview and a number of case studies spread out over the more-than-a-century long history that taken together give a good insight into the main functions of a middle-size military intelligence service as The Netherlands has known. The MIVD is giving the author access to the archives of the MIVD and its predecessors, which normally are closed to outsiders.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
2 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
1232 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-7623-8 (9781538176238)
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Bob de Graaff
Lifting the Fog
The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)
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Person
Bob de Graaff has published extensively on the history of intelligence sinsce 1985. He worked at several universities and academic research institutes in The Netherlands before being retired in 2022. He held chairs for reconstruction after conflict at the University of Utrecht (2005-2010), terrorism and counterterrorism at the University of Leiden (2007-2009) and intelligence and security studies both at the Netherlands Defense Academy (2010-2017) and the University of Utrecht (2010-2022). He was co-founder of the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association in 1991 and of the European Chapter of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) in 2015.
Content
Foreword by the director of the MIVD
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1912-1940: Neutrality under threatThe Venlo incident: Neutrality discreditedThe Second World War: The hard lesson of dependenceThe first years after the war: A new startA suspicious death in Zurich1950-1968: Fixated on hardwareNew Guinea: The Vlakke Hoek incident1968-1987: Hot and cold temperatures during the Cold WarCounterintelligence: Unwelcome interest from the Warsaw PactSpy magnet AFCENTThe work of military attaches, with a focus on PolandIJsbrand Smit and the "natural ally"A break-in with consequences: The Utrecht burglary by Onkruit and anti-militarism1987-2000: A difficult new beginningSrebrenica: Waiting for the shot to be firedRight-wing extremism and misconductThe twenty-first century: The professionalization of the serviceCooperation with the domestic sister service: "It's a bit like Ajax vs. Feyenoord"High-level HUMINT operationsCooperation with the special forces: AfghanistanJust calling The Hague: A Lynx in Libya, or how to educate the clientThe OPCW: Caught red-handedConclusion
Appendices
Overview of sources and literature consulted
Index of persons
Notes
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1912-1940: Neutrality under threatThe Venlo incident: Neutrality discreditedThe Second World War: The hard lesson of dependenceThe first years after the war: A new startA suspicious death in Zurich1950-1968: Fixated on hardwareNew Guinea: The Vlakke Hoek incident1968-1987: Hot and cold temperatures during the Cold WarCounterintelligence: Unwelcome interest from the Warsaw PactSpy magnet AFCENTThe work of military attaches, with a focus on PolandIJsbrand Smit and the "natural ally"A break-in with consequences: The Utrecht burglary by Onkruit and anti-militarism1987-2000: A difficult new beginningSrebrenica: Waiting for the shot to be firedRight-wing extremism and misconductThe twenty-first century: The professionalization of the serviceCooperation with the domestic sister service: "It's a bit like Ajax vs. Feyenoord"High-level HUMINT operationsCooperation with the special forces: AfghanistanJust calling The Hague: A Lynx in Libya, or how to educate the clientThe OPCW: Caught red-handedConclusion
Appendices
Overview of sources and literature consulted
Index of persons
Notes