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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.
Foreword by the director of the MIVD
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
- 1912-1940: Neutrality under threat
- The Venlo incident: Neutrality discredited
- The Second World War: The hard lesson of dependence
- The first years after the war: A new start
- A suspicious death in Zurich
- 1950-1968: Fixated on hardware
- New Guinea: The Vlakke Hoek incident
- 1968-1987: Hot and cold temperatures during the Cold War
- Counterintelligence: Unwelcome interest from the Warsaw Pact
- Spy magnet AFCENT
- The work of military attachés, with a focus on Poland
- IJsbrand Smit and the “natural ally”
- A break-in with consequences: The Utrecht burglary by Onkruit and anti-militarism
- 1987-2000: A difficult new beginning
- Srebrenica: Waiting for the shot to be fired
- Right-wing extremism and misconduct
- The twenty-first century: The professionalization of the service
- Cooperation with the domestic sister service: “It’s a bit like Ajax vs. Feyenoord”
- High-level HUMINT operations
- Cooperation with the special forces: Afghanistan
- Just calling The Hague: A Lynx in Libya, or how to educate the client
- The OPCW: Caught red-handed
Conclusion
Appendices
Overview of sources and literature consulted
Index of persons
Notes