The Nationale SIGINT Organisatie (NSO) was the Dutch
signals intelligence
Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of ''signals'', whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication ( ...
(SIGINT) organisation, which was part of the
Ministry of Defence
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, but worked for both the military intelligence and security agency
MIVD
The Military Intelligence and Security Service (Dutch: ''Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst'', MIVD) is the military intelligence service of the Netherlands. It was formerly known as the ''Militaire Inlichtingendienst'' (MID) and receiv ...
as for its civilian counterpart
AIVD
The General Intelligence and Security Service ( nl, Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, AIVD; ) is the intelligence and security agency of the Netherlands, tasked with domestic, foreign and signals intelligence and protecting national se ...
.
The NSO was established in 2003, in the aftermath of the
September 11, 2001 attacks
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and became fully operational in 2007. Early 2014, the NSO merged into the newly created
Joint Sigint Cyber Unit
The Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU) is a Dutch government organisation, which was founded in 2013 and became operational on June 15, 2014. JSCU's primary tasks are intercepting radio and satellite traffic (Sigint) and obtaining intelligence through ...
(JSCU).
[Project Symbolon completed: the Dutch Joint SIGINT Cyber Unit (JSCU) is born]
September 24, 2013
The facilities of the NSO were a high frequency radio interception station in
Eibergen
Eibergen (Low Saxon: ''Eibarge'') is a town and former municipality in Gelderland in the Eastern Netherlands. It is part of the Achterhoek cultural region. The administrative cooperation of about 20 municipalities in this region is the Regio Achte ...
in the
Berkelland
Berkelland () is a municipality in the Netherlands province of Gelderland. It was created on 1 January 2005 from the merger of the former municipalities of Borculo, Eibergen, Neede, and Ruurlo. The new municipality was named after the Berkel, a sma ...
municipality, and a satellite ground station in
Burum in the
Kollumerland c.a. municipality.
Nationale SIGINT Organisatie
Archive
Ministry of Defence
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. Retrieved on 13 June 2013. There are also some mobile SIGINT units which can be deployed at military operations abroad. The operation of both listening stations and the mobile units has been taken over by the JSCU.
References
External links
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Ministerie van Defensie
(Rijksoverheid) Ministry of Defence
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Signals intelligence agencies
Dutch intelligence agencies
Berkelland
Organisations based in Friesland
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