Amsterdam
The Dutch intelligence service issued a warning this week that American and British intelligence agents may have been “compromised.” Officials disclosed that an agent with the Rotterdam region’s intelligence service accidentally left computer discs containing classified information in a rental car. The person who found the discs gave them to a reporter. Dutch media have focused on information indicating that Dutch secret police had spied on right-wing political leader Pim Fortuyn, an anti-immigrant firebrand who was assassinated in 2002. But the intelligence service warned that the discs also “contain the names and telephone numbers of countless employees of the British and American intelligence services.”
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