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THE NETHERLANDS--A TOTALLY BIZZARE UNDERWORLD

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Date: 01-26-06

Leaks from National Security Agency AIVD Underworld
Claims Police Officials in Amsterdam were Bribed

If the people cannot trust the organization devoted to the protection of national security, who can they trust? This is the question which is being asked today by many politicians in The Hague.


As for the people, the report Saturday in De Telegraaf that the most important drug trafficking organization in the country has bribed officials within the General Intelligence and Investigation Agency (AIVD) , only confirms suspicions one cannot trust the government to act in their best interest.


The newspaper has published quotations drawn from files made available to them by the mafia-like organization led by the 44-year-old Robert Mink Kok. These documents reveal that the predecessor organization of the AIVD, the Internal Security Service (BVD) had conducted an investigation, code-named Mikado, after learning in 1997 that the mafia under Mink Kok had paid off officials in the Amsterdam Police Department and the Office of Public Prosecution in Amsterdam.


This information was discovered by two members of Kok’s organization who were working for the BVD. The two went by the code names Sentaro and Herfstbos. Sentaro was on good terms with the leading members of the gang while Herfstbos was on, according to the report, the “pheriphery” of the organization.


According to the Mikado Investigation report, Sentaro told the BVD, “…Kok would obtain warnings from these officials in exchange for cash”. The total estimated amount paid these officials is, according to the report, at least two million euros.


The report dealing with the Mikado Investigation was leaked to the drug trafficking organization by officials within the AIVD. The report, however, concluded that there was no explicit evidence (they are always making excuses, slapping of the hand...) the police or members of the prosecuting attorney’s office had taken bribes in exchange for information regarding ongoing investigations into the activities of this gangland organization.


The Mikado Investigation did reveal that Mink Kok and sidekicks had built up a large cache of weapons which, it is believed, were provided to such organizations as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland, the ETA in the Basque country of Spain and the Muslim terrorist organization, the Hezbollah. These cache’s included large amounts of the explosive semtex and “hundreds of anti-tank weapons”.


Further, the Mikado Investigation report said there was strong evidence that Mink Kok is responsible for several gangland killings including Jaap Van der Heijden, a drug dealer in Alkmaar who was killed in 1993 when a bomb went off just as he opened the door of his home. Mink Kok was detained in 1995 for the suspected murder of Van der Heijden, but as well, for the illegal possession of arms. Mink is currently serving time in the Scheveningen Penitentiary.


Minister Piet Hein Donner at Justice is highly embarrassed about the leaks at the AIVD. ‘My greatest concern is that there seems to be no end to the leaks. We are currently investigating these leaks and will prosecute those who have committed them”. The Minister, however, denied officials at the Amsterdam Police Department had taken bribes. The AIVD, moreover, has filed a complaint for violations of the State Secrets Act.


The Chief Police Commissioner in Amsterdam, Mr. Bernard Welten, while upset about the possible ramifications of the report, was clearly relieved to hear that no one in his organization, at least according to the report, (cough, cough...) had taken bribes. Mr. Welten believes much of the commotion caused by these revelations is due to the fact the newspaper did not include in its original story that the AIVD had not discovered personnel had violated the law.


In the Tweede Kamer (Lower House), meanwhile, Mrs. Ella Kalsbeek of the Labour Party, who chaired a parliamentary investigation into possible illegal drug smuggling by members of the Regional Police Intelligence Agency in Haarlem as discovered in the 1990s by the House IRT Parliamentary Inquiry, has suggested it might be appropriate at this stage to poll the House on the possibility of holding a new parliamentary inquiry, but this time into the activities of the AIVD.