Mission
The AIVD focuses mostly on domestic non-military threats to Dutch national security, whereas the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) focuses on international threats, specifically military and government-sponsored threats such as espionage. The AIVD, unlike its predecessor BVD, is charged with collecting intelligence and assisting in combating both domestic and foreign threats to national security.
Since the murder of Theo van Gogh and the discovery of the Hofstad Network, AIVD has refocused on the Islamic fundamentalist threat to Dutch society.
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