Description

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Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022) is unique as a general body of knowledge about the history of the Dutch intelligence and security services since 1913. The chapters alternate between a general historical overview and a number of case studies spread out over the more-than-a-century long history that taken together give a good insight into the main functions of a middle-size military intelligence service as The Netherlands has known. The MIVD is giving the author access to the archives of the MIVD and its predecessors, which normally are closed to outsiders.

About the Author

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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.