Netherlands: foreign agencies questioned (1)

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Netherlands: foreign agencies questioned
artdoc February=1992

Following a series of revelations about German and US
intelligence or Drug Enforcement Agency officials operating on
Dutch soil, the opposition conservative liberal party (VVD) have
asked cabinet ministers to give a clear picture of the
arrangements for foreign policing and intelligence operations in
Holland. `We are not just concerned about the activities of
American services, but also about other forms of international
cooperation that remain obscure', says MP Hans Dijkstal. `In
matters of prosecution etcetera, I encounter far too many
Americans lately' adds his colleague Mr. Korthals (not to be
confused with the former minister of Justice Mr Frits Korthals
Altes, also an MP for the VVD party). Minister of the Interior
Mrs Ien Dales said that all officers have to comply with the laws
and restrictions of the country in which an operation takes
place.

Statewatch, Volume 2 no 1, January/February 1992

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