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Netherlands: New head of security service

01 July 1995

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Vice-Admiral N Buis, present commander of the Dutch naval forces, is to become the new head of the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) security service. He succeeds Mr A Docters van Leeuwen, who was made Attorney-General on 1 January 1995. In his Navy career, vice-Admiral Buis has been involved with counterintelligence work. It is unprecedented for a military officer to become head of the civil security service. Also it has taken an exceptionally long time to find a successor who is acceptable to all parties involved both within the BVD and in departmental circles. The Vice-Admiral is an outsider with no partisan allegiances and extensive international experience.

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