Intelligence for a Complex Environment – Bram Spoor
This study asserts that complexity science, the study of systems that are complex and adaptive, holds many promises for examining the threats in the operational environment as well…
Articles
Smart intelligence cooperation – Dr. A. Claver
On 25-26 October 2023 the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) held its bi-annual international conference in Amsterdam. Founded in 1991 the NISA aims to further academic research and…
Lucien Conein, Legendary OSS, Special Forces and CIA Officer – Forgotten by the USASOC History Office?
by Jelle Hooiveld The USASOC History Office caused quite a stir in the US Special Forces and Intelligence community with its eyebrow-raising article about OSS influence on Special…
Loyalty and Secret Intelligence: Anglo‒Dutch Cooperation during World War II door Eleni Braat
Secrecy and informal organisation produce, sustain, and reinforce feelings of loyalty within intelligence and security services. This article demonstrates that loyalty is needed for cooperation between intelligence partners…
The Return of Political Warfare by Danny Pronk
The West currently faces a number of actors who employ a wide range of measures to influence, coerce, intimidate, or undermine its interests. Many of these measures are…
How the Dutch intelligence service (BVD) prevented the hijacking of a train by Syrian terrorist in 1975
Kees Jan Dellebeke In 1975 four Syrians intended to hijack an international train with Russian Jews in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but following a tip-off by the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst…
Official Intelligence Histories. Is there a Problem? door Ben de Jong
Over the past twenty years or so, intelligence and security services in several Western countries and in Russia as well have allowed official histories to be published. Authors, in…
Prisoners, Lovers & Spies en de geschiedenis van de onzichtbare inkt door Karl de Leeuw
De geschiedenis van de cryptologie – het maken en breken van geheimschriften - - was voor het grote publiek terra incognita, totdat David Kahn daar in 1967 met…