AIVD

AIVD   (Intelligence agency)
Abbreviation	AIVD
Parent organization	Netherlands
Headquarters	Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Leader	AIVD/Director General
Staff	1.700
Founder of	Operatiën en Inlichtingen
Exposed by	Huib Modderkolk
Subpage	•AIVD/Director General

The General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), is the Intelligence and Security agency of the Netherlands, tasked with Domestic, Foreign and Signals intelligence and protecting national security.

Criticism

• Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat was convicted of complicity in war crimes for selling raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein. Soon after his arrest, the Dutch corporate media reported that van Anraat had been an informer of the Dutch secret service AIVD and enjoyed AIVD's protection.
• The group let Abdul Qadeer Khan go, although he shared Dutch nuclear knowledge to help Pakistan to produce its nuclear bomb. Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers claimed in 2005 that this on the instructions of the CIA.

 

A Quote by AIVD

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Dick Schoof	“Children are spoon fed extremist values and do not have to be converted. Minors in the 'caliphate' are taught from a young age that anyone who does not adhere to the correct interpretation of Islam must be slain. Children are portrayed as fighters, as happy and free. The propaganda says a lot about the role ISIS gives kids. Therefore upon their return we look at what care, safety measures and interventions are appropriate.”	2017	ANP

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Frans van Anraat	“When I was called into court I was with an intern of my lawyer. The lawyer was the son of the minister of justice Giuliano Vassalli. So I knew in advance that the earlier verdict (no rendition) would get cancelled. It was made clear to me that it was better to take a "vacation".”	Frans van Anraat	2 March 2005
Sigrid Kaag	“All parties involved in the conflict are committing crimes. The Netherlands knows that the opposition is committing war crimes. We already wrote that starting in 2013. In fact Karel van Oostrom knew precisely what was written in the reports. He even knew all the details. The Dutch have enough people and info from intelligence agencies. And especially the Dutch and all the other EU countries, because they share all that info. They knew exactly what was happening. (...) Throughout investigation is needed. Not only the Dutch but other nation states supported the Syrian war. Therefore they could be complicit in committing war crimes.”	Sigrid Kaag Carla Del Ponte	9 December 2018
Netherlands/Deep state	“The Dutch, according to secret documents, are an important partner of the NSA, together with Germany, France and Norway as 'Third Party Country'. This puts the Dutch only one step below the other 4 Anglo-Saxon countries the US directly trades info with in their Five eyes-program.”	Huub Modderkolk	2014
Nieuwsuur	“The AIVD and MIVD are subordinates of the Americans. The Dutch work for the Americans. They do what we tell them to do. They aren't valued because of their capacity, but just because they give us a free passage, that's what the NSA uses them for. (...) Look what France is doing and even they couldn't stop all those terror attacks”	Edward Snowden Nieuwsuur
Erik van Sabben	“To his family members, it is still a mystery: Dutchman Erik van Sabben leaves for ten days in late 2008 for the Iranian capital of Tehran. The 36-year-old engineer - a fearless adventurer who is not afraid to take risks and works in Dubai for a heavy transport company - is going with his Iranian wife to visit her family. It should be a festive end to the year. But after just one day, Van Sabben, used to working in stressful situations and under high pressure, wants to leave Iran. He seems panicked. Why the engineer wants to leave the country, he cannot say. His Dutch mother says of it fifteen years later, “We all thought it was very strange. His Iranian wife: “He was so upset and insisted that we leave immediately.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> What his immediate family and wife do not know: Van Sabben carries a secret with him. He leads a double life. Research by the Volkskrant, in which over a period of two years 43 people were spoken to, 19 of whom were from the intelligence services AIVD and MIVD, shows that Van Sabben was recruited by the Dutch secret service.”	Erik van Sabben Huib Modderkolk	2017
Dick Schoof	“Here you come to the metaphor of the frog in the pan. If you slowly make the water in the pan hotter, the frog would stay put. But if you throw the frog into a hot pan, it jumps right out.”	Dick Schoof	2023

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Rob Bertholee	AIVD/Director General	2011	2018
Erik van Sabben	Spook	2005	2009
Dick Schoof	AIVD/Director General	2018	2020

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