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Dutch, Australian and Indonesian Agents: The NEI Section of Australia’s Secret War

The little-known organisation that preceded NEFIS special operations Before the Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service (NEFIS) developed its own special-operations capability, Dutch, Australian and Indonesian personnel were already being sent from Australia on clandestine missions into the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies. Their activities were organised through the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) Read more

By DACC, ago

Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service (NEFIS): Dutch Intelligence in Exile in Australia

Rebuilding an intelligence service after the fall of the Netherlands East Indies When Japanese forces conquered the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942, the Dutch colonial government lost not only its territory but much of the intelligence network on which military and civil authorities had depended. Australia became the principal Read more

By DACC, ago

How Dutch and Indonesian intelligence fitted into the Allied intelligence network in Australia

When the Japanese advance through Southeast Asia and the Pacific forced Allied governments, military personnel and intelligence organisations back to Australia in early 1942, Australia became much more than a military base. It also became a major centre of the Allied intelligence war against Japan. Australian, American, British, Dutch and Read more

By DACC, ago

NEFIS Research Portal – Dutch and Indonesian Intelligence in Australia during WWII

Introduction Following the Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942, Australia became the principal base from which Dutch military, intelligence and government organisations attempted to maintain contact with the occupied territories and prepare for an eventual Allied return. What developed was not simply a Dutch intelligence operation. Read more

By DACC, ago