ABSTRACT
In Holland the security and intelligence services have managed to avoid the limelight for most of the post-war period. Shortly after the Second World War the foundations for the present structures were laid. Three separate military intelligence services were formed to continue the work of the pre war services, but with a new orientation on NATO and the United States. Signals intelligence (communications intercepts) became a prominent and very expensive task that was executed under the control of naval intelligence in close co-operation with the Anglo-American monitoring organisations.
