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The Dutch Intelligence services seem to be really good.

I recall they helped the UK during the Falklands War with SIGINT/cryptanalytic stuff

Various sources also claim that Dutch intelligence deployed or was involved with deploying Stuxnet in Iran.

In 2019, it was reported that an Iranian mole working for Dutch intelligence at the behest of Israel and the CIA inserted the Stuxnet virus with a USB flash drive or convinced another person working at the Natanz facility to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_van_Sabben

As a Flemish person I can attest that the Dutch have outstanding engineers. So if their intelligence agency has a proper budget, they definitely have a nice pool to select from.

Any reason you call yourselves Flemish and not Dutch? I always thought Flemish is the language and Dutch the nationality?

Flanders has not been a part of the Netherlands for almost 200 years and was only ever really part of it for 15 years (It's the Dutch speaking part of Belgium).

Thank you! Learning something new every day :)

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