Netherlands: BVD annual report (1)
01 May 1996
The Dutch Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD, annual budget Dfl 67 million, 539 personnel), the Dutch security service, has brought out its 66-page annual report for 1995. It says that the Iranian intelligence services continue to harass and intimidate the exile community in Holland, and coerced refugees to infiltrate and destabilize opposition groups. The BVD has been given a permanent seat on the international European Conference of security services. Members of this international forum, which has held annual meetings since 1994, are Austria, the Benelux countries, Czechia, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.