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Netherlands: Security service report

01 January 1993

The Dutch Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD), the internal security agency, published its first annual report which covered its activities in 1991. The report makes many references to international meetings with its counterparts such as the annual conference of West European security services and the meeting of a number of heads of European security services (it is presumed this refers to what used to be called the "Kilowatt" meeting). The BVD's contribution to the yearly NATO survey - a threat analysis in the fields of espionage, terrorism and subversion -is also mentioned. They estimate that the followers of extreme right groups number several hundred with several dozen actually involved in political activities.

During 1991 the BVD made 55,142 administrative investigations and 10,865 more intensive security investigations for the government and sensitive corporate agencies. 862 full security investigations were carried out on behalf of international and other security services.

The report, for 1991, says that 20% of the BVD's time was spent on the protection against unauthorised disclosures of state secrets, 15% to preventing and combatting political violence, 12% safeguarding government integrity, 10% protecting democratic rights and liberties and 10% on security and vetting.