NETHERLANDS• 387shortly before Margaret Thatcher’s first general election victory.
Neave had been a close confidant of the Conservative leader and had
been tipped to become her secretary of state forNorthern Ireland.NELSON, SIR FRANK.Educated at Neuenheim College, Heidelberg,
Frank Nelson fought with the Bombay Light Horse during World War
I and was elected the Conservative MP for Stroud in 1924. He retired
from politics in 1931 and joined theSecret Intelligence Serviceto
work under consular cover in Switzerland. He was appointed the first
director ofSpecial Operations Executivein 1940, with the designa-
tion ‘‘CD,’’ and was knighted in 1942. The following year he was
posted to Washington, D.C., to representAir Intelligence, and he
later headed Air Intelligence at Detmold until he was demobilized in
1946.
NETHERLANDS.British Intelligence has enjoyed the closest of rela-
tions with its Dutch counterparts since World War I when Holland
was a major center of espionage and theSecret Intelligence Service
(SIS) ran a large station, headed by Richard Tinsley in Rotterdam.
When the Dutch government was forced to take refuge in London,
SIS accommodated thedirector of military intelligence, Major
General J. W. van Oorschot, who remained on good terms with head
of the SIS country section, designated P8, ColonelEuan Rabagliati.
After the war Anglo-Dutch relations were strained by the severe
losses sustained bySpecial Operations Executive, but SIS’s post-
war head of station in The Hague was a long-term resident, Richard
Laming, who had served in theNetherlands Sectionfrom November
1943 but had the advantage of having been in Beirut during the pe-
riod of the worst enemy penetration.
During the Cold War, SIS maintained the closest links with the
BVD (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst) security service, modeled on
MI5, and the IDB (Inlichtingendienst Buitenlandse), which spon-
sored SAZ, astay-behind networknamed after its headquarters, the
Villa Maarheeze, but disbanded in 1994. The Dutch signals intelli-
gence organization, the Technical Information Processing Centre, a
component of theNaval Intelligence Division, liaises withGCHQ.
The IDB’s relationship with SIS was sufficiently close for a well-
placed spy in Jakarta, codenamedvirgil, to be run jointly during the