Hans van Mierlo was a Dutch politician. Van Mierlo convinced his political party D66 to tolerate US Cold War cruise missiles and nuclear weapons on Dutch soil and tried to start a shadow government "aiming to implement new policies when actually being elected". Van Mierlo helped to eliminate Dries van Agt in the 1981 Dutch cabinet crisis and received orders from the US to not arrest Surinam dictator Desi Bouterse for drug trading (while the CIA was busy with Bouterse). Van Mierlo was deemed quite cunning for the political era, even out-cunning other deep states operatives such as Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (who rejected the invasion of Afghanistan and the placing of nuclear weapons), Winnie Sorgdrager (who covered-up certain aspect of Klaas Bruinsma's influence when the regional police units of Amsterdam were revealed to working mostly with him or against each-other instead of only against him), and at a point even former PM Ruud Lubbers.
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